Interannual variation of carbon fluxes from three contrasting evergreen forests: The role of forest dynamics and climate

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2711-2723

  Sierra, Carlos A ^a   Loescher, Henry W ^a,b   Harmon, Mark E ^a   Richardson, Andrew D ^c   Hollinger, David Y ^d   Perakis, Steven S ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Carbon sources and sinks; Climate variability; Ecosystem carbon fluxes; Ecosystem modeling; Forest dynamics; Hypothesis testing; Old growth forests; STANDCARB.

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE;

CARBON; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 70349946980     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0073.1     Document Type: Article

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