Different patterns of ecosystem carbon accumulation between a young and an old-growth subtropical forest in Southern China

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1385-1395

  Tang, Xuli ^a   Wang, Ying Ping ^b   Zhou, Guoyi ^a   Zhang, Deqiang ^a   Liu, Shen ^a   Liu, Shizhong ^a   Zhang, Qianmei ^a   Liu, Juxiu ^a   Yan, Junhua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Mortality; Net ecosystem production; Net primary productivity; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MORTALITY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOIL CARBON; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA;

EID: 79960340079     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9914-2     Document Type: Article

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