Estimating annual GPP, NPP and stem growth in Finland using summary models

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 524-533

  Härkönen, Sanna ^a   Pulkkinen, Minna ^b   Duursma, Remko ^c   Mäkelä, Annikki ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gross primary production; Net primary production; Stem biomass growth; Summary model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLOSED CANOPIES; DATA SETS; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE SUMS; EQUATION BASED; FINLAND; FINNISH; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELS; LEAF AREA; LIGHT-USE EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PREDICTION; LONG-TERM SERIES; MODEL COMPARISON; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SITE TYPES; SITE-SPECIFIC; STAND AGE; STAND LEVELS; STEM BIOMASS; STEM BIOMASS GROWTH; STEM GROWTH; TREE DATA; WEATHER DATA;

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ECOLOGY;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STEM;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRODUCTION;

FINLAND;

EID: 72649093383     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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