Simulated impacts of insect defoliation on forest carbon dynamics

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Medvigy, D ^a   Clark, K L ^b   Skowronski, N S ^c   Schafer K V R ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM CARBONS; IDEALIZED MODELS; INSECT DEFOLIATION; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON FLUX; DEFOLIATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIC; MOTH; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BIOMASS; CARBON; DEFOLIATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION;

NEW JERSEY; PINE BARRENS; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; LYMANTRIA; PINUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 84871839126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045703     Document Type: Article

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