Deadwood in New Zealand's indigenous forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2456-2466

  Richardson, Sarah J ^a   Peltzer, Duane A ^a   Hurst, Jennifer M ^a   Allen, Robert B ^a   Bellingham, Peter J ^a   Carswell, Fiona E ^a   Clinton, Peter W ^b   Griffiths, Alan D ^c   Wiser, Susan K ^a   Wright, Elaine F ^d  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbon; CWD; Deadwood; Evergreen temperate rainforest; Forest inventory

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; BROADLEAVED; CWD; DATA SETS; DEADWOOD; DECAY CLASS; EVERGREEN TEMPERATE RAINFOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST TYPE; HUMID CONDITIONS; MYRTACEAE; NEW ZEALAND; NOTHOFAGUS; OLD GROWTH; PERMANENT PLOT; STAND AGE; STANDING DEAD TREES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TEMPERATE RAINFOREST; TREE BIOMASS; TREE SIZE; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL FOREST; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT; WOOD DENSITY;

FORESTRY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; VAPOR PRESSURE; VAPORS;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DEAD WOOD; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST; SLOPE; TEMPERATE FOREST; VAPOR PRESSURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; DEAD WOOD; FORESTS; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUNONIACEAE; METROSIDEROS ROBUSTA; METROSIDEROS UMBELLATA; MYRTACEAE; NOTHOFAGACEAE; NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS FUSCA; WEINMANNIA RACEMOSA;

EID: 70349789101     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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