Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Williams, Christopher A ^a   Collatz, G James ^b   Masek, Jeffrey ^b   Goward, Samuel N ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AGE STRUCTURES; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; CALIBRATION DATA; CARBON FLUXES; CARBON SINK; CARBON STOCKS; CONTINENTAL SCALE; FIRE EMISSIONS; FOREST AGE; FOREST AGE DISTRIBUTION; FOREST AREA; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; FOREST RECOVERY; GROWING STOCKS; GROWTH ENHANCEMENT; LARGE DATABASE; MODELING ERRORS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITIES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RECOVERY PROCESS; UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FIRES; HARVESTING; RECOVERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOREST FIRE; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH RATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; VOLUME;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855906493     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003947     Document Type: Article

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