Modelling carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forest ecosystems of Central Russia under different climate change scenarios and forest management regimes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2262-2275

  Shanin, Vladimir N ^a   Komarov, Alexander S ^a   Mikhailov, Alexey V ^a   Bykhovets, Sergei S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Climate change; EFIMOD; Forest fires; Forest management; ISEM 2w009; ROMUL

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; EFIMOD; FOREST FIRES; ISEM 2W009; ROMUL;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; NITROGEN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

CARBON; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; RUSSIA; SIMULATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79959358690     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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