Factors promoting larch dominance in central Siberia: Fire versus growth performance and implications for carbon dynamics at the boundary of evergreen and deciduous conifers

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1405-1421

  Schulze, E D ^a   Wirth, C ^b   Mollicone, D ^a,c   Von Lupke N ^d   Ziegler, W ^a   Achard, F ^c   Mund, M ^d   Prokushkin, A ^e   Scherbina, S ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^f Centralno Sibirsky Natural Reserve ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AGE CLASS; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYTOMASS; REGENERATION; SOIL CARBON; STEM; SUCCESSION; TRANSECT;

KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TUNGUSKA; YENISEI RIDGE;

ABIES; ABIES SIBIRICA; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; PICEA; PICEA OBOVATA; PINUS SIBIRICA;

EID: 84859906197     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-1405-2012     Document Type: Article

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