Assessing net carbon sequestration on urban and community forests of northern New England, USA

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-68

  Zheng, Daolan ^a   Ducey, Mark J ^a   Heath, Linda S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest carbon sequestration; Housing density; Net forest growth rate; Percentage canopy cover; Social and ecological studies

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; MAP; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN FORESTRY;

NEW ENGLAND; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 84873137465     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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