Increasing potential NEP of eastern boreal North American forests constrained by decreasing wildfire activity

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Girardin, M P ^a   Bernier, P Y ^a   Gauthier, S ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Canada; Carbon; Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Forest fire history; Forest inventories Process based model 3PG; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861348069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00159.1     Document Type: Article

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