Estimating potential forest NPP, biomass and their climatic sensitivity in New England using a dynamic ecosystem model

Ecosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Tang, Guoping ^a   Beckage, Brian ^a   Smith, Benjamin ^b   Miller, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass; Climatic sensitivity; Forest inventory data; Inter comparison; LPJ GUESS; MODIS NPP; Net primary productivity; New England

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865423563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00087.1     Document Type: Article

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