Spatially distributed modeling of the long-term carbon balance of a boreal landscape

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2780-2795

  Govind, Ajit ^a   Chen, Jing Ming ^b   Bernier, Pierre ^c   Margolis, Hank ^d   Guindon, Luc ^c   Beaudoin, Andre ^c  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass C pools BCPs ; Boreal ecosystem; Changes in atmospheric chemistry; Climate change; Disturbance; InTEC; Long term C modeling; Soil C pools SCPs

Indexed keywords

BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; C MODELING; CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DISTURBANCE; INTEC;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOMETRICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISTURBANCE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE; MATURATION; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

CANADA;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79959650947     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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