An estimate of the terrestrial carbon budget of Russia using inventory-based, eddy covariance and inversion methods

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5323-5340

  Dolman, A J ^a   Shvidenko, A ^b   Schepaschenko, D ^b   Ciais, P ^c   Tchebakova, N ^d,e   Chen, T ^a   Van Der Molen, M K ^a,f   Belelli Marchesini, L ^a   Maximov, T C ^g   Maksyutov, S ^h   Schulze, E D ⁱ  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c DIF   (France)

^d SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^e SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CRYOLITHOZONE   (Russian Federation)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVERSION LAYER; RESPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

BELARUS; KAZAKHSTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 84865795936     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-5323-2012     Document Type: Article

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