Assessing seven decades of carbon accumulation in two U.S. Northern hardwood forests

Forests

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 730-740

  Hoover, Coeli M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest carbon; Long term inventory; Northern hardwood forests

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; CARBON ACCUMULATION; CARBON STOCKS; CHANGING CLIMATE; DATA SETS; DISTURBANCE REGIME; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; LONG-TERM INVENTORY; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST; PENNSYLVANIA; PER UNIT; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BIOMETRICS; CARBON; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HARDWOODS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMETRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS;

BIOMETRICS; CARBON; EMISSION; FORESTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HARDWOODS;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869215199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f2030730     Document Type: Article

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