Comparing measured and modelled forest carbon stocks in high-boreal forests of harvest and natural-disturbance origin in Labrador, Canada

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 825-839

  Hagemann, Ulrike ^a   Moroni, Martin T ^b   Shaw, Cindy H ^b   Kurz, Werner A ^c   Makeschin, Franz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bryophyte dynamics; Buried dead wood; CBM CFS3; Clearcut; Disturbance; Northern boreal forest; Organic layer; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CBM-CFS3; DEAD WOOD; DISTURBANCE; ORGANIC LAYERS;

BIOCONVERSION; DEBRIS; DECAY (ORGANIC); HARVESTING; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEARCUTTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST SOIL; FORESTRY MODELING; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PODZOL; SNAG; SOIL CARBON; WILDFIRE; WOODY DEBRIS;

CARBON; FIBER DEBRIS; FIRES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL; WOOD;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 74549156291     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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