Invasive insects impact forest carbon dynamics

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-101

  Clark, Kenneth L ^a   Skowronski, Nicholas ^a   Hom, John ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Ecosystem function; Eddy covariance; Invasive species; Net carbon exchange; New jersey pine Barrens; Pitch Pine

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFOLIATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST DYNAMICS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; UPLAND REGION;

HEXAPODA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 74049141793     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01983.x     Document Type: Article

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