Calibration and validation of a simplified processbased model for the prediction of the carbon balance of Scottish Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) plantations

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2411-2426

  Minunno, Francesco ^a,c   Xenakis, Georgios ^a   Perks, Michael P ^b   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EXCHANGE; CARBON FLUXES; CARBON LOSS; CARBON RICH; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST GROWTH; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELS; LOW COSTS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PARAMETERISATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; PROCESS-ORIENTED MODEL; SCOTLAND; SITE PRODUCTIVITY; SITKA SPRUCE; SOIL TYPES; TIMBER PRODUCTION; TIME STEP; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; SOILS; TIMBER;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL TYPE; TIMESCALE; TREE PLANTING;

CALIBRATION; CHELATION; CLIMATES; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GROWTH; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PLANTATIONS; SOIL;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 78650440679     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-181     Document Type: Article

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