Controls on carbon consumption during Alaskan wildland fires

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 685-699

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Hoy, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal carbon dynamics; Disturbance; Fire ecology; Fire emissions; Fuel moisture; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; REMOTE SENSING; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84855845755     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02573.x     Document Type: Article

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