Carbon stocks and fluxes in tropical lowland dipterocarp rainforests in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Saner, Philippe ^a   Loh, Yen Yee ^b   Ong, Robert C ^c   Hector, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; CARBON; RAIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON STOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEADWOOD; DEFORESTATION; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; LITTER FALL; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT LITTER; PLANT ROOT; RAIN FOREST; SOIL RESPIRATION; STANDING LITTER; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; CHEMISTRY; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BORNEO; CARBON; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; RAIN; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84855335546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029642     Document Type: Article

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