Wood net primary production resilience in an unmanaged forest transitioning from early to middle succession

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-41

  Gough, Christopher M ^a,b   Vogel, Christoph S ^c   Hardiman, Brady ^b   Curtis, Peter S ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Diversity; Forest; Leaf area; Net primary production; Succession

Indexed keywords

CANOPY TREES; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL SPECIES; LEAF AREA; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICHIGAN; MIXED FORESTS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STEM MORTALITY; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TREE SPECIES; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

FORESTRY;

WOOD;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LEAF AREA INDEX; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; MORTALITY; PRODUCTION; WOOD;

MICHIGAN; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953136097     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.03.027     Document Type: Article

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