Assessment of boreal forest historical C dynamics in the Yukon River Basin: Relative roles of warming and fire regime change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2091-2109

  Yuan, F M ^a,f   Yi, S H ^b   Mcguire, A D ^a   Johnson, K D ^a,g   Liang, J ^a,h   Harden, J W ^c   Kasischke, E S ^d   Kurz, W A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^h WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Basin scale analysis; Boreal forests; C stock dynamics; Climate warming; Dynamic organic soil; Fire regime change; Terrestrial ecological modeling

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATABASE; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; SOIL; TIME; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES; YUKON TERRITORY;

YUKON BASIN;

EID: 84871236594     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1957.1     Document Type: Article

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