Coarse woody debris in late-successional Picea abies forests in northern Europe: Variability in quantities and models of decay class dynamics

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 770-779

  Aakala, Tuomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dead wood; Dendrochronology; Disturbance history; Natural forest; Stage based model; Wood density

Indexed keywords

DEAD WOOD; DISTURBANCE HISTORY; NATURAL FOREST; NATURAL FORESTS; WOOD DENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DEBRIS; DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MORTALITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAMPLING; SUCCESSION; WOODY DEBRIS;

DEAD WOOD; DECAY; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; FIBER DEBRIS; FINLAND; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARDWOODS; METEOROLOGY; RUSSIA; WOOD;

ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; FINLAND; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ABIES; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 77954959461     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.05.035     Document Type: Article

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