Multi-scale Drivers of Spatial Variation in Old-Growth Forest Carbon Density Disentangled with Lidar and an Individual-Based Landscape Model

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1321-1335

  Seidl, Rupert ^a,b   Spies, Thomas A ^c   Rammer, Werner ^b   Steel, E Ashley ^d   Pabst, Robert J ^a   Olsen, Keith ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

airborne Lidar; climate change mitigation; ecosystem structure and functioning; forest carbon storage; forest stand dynamics; functional diversity; iLand; individual based modeling; old growth forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIDAR; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND DYNAMICS;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870616843     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9587-2     Document Type: Article

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