Quantifying land use and disturbance intensity in forestry, based on the self-thinning relationship

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3272-3284

  Luyssaert, S ^a   Hessenmoller D ^b   Von Lupke N ^b,c   Kaiser, S ^b   Schulze, E D ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Forestry; Germany; Human appropriation; Management intensity; Operational intensity; Planning intensity

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CARBON CYCLE; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RECONSTRUCTION; SELF THINNING; TIMESCALE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84555208164     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2395.1     Document Type: Article

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