Quantifying variation in forest disturbance, and its effects on aboveground biomass dynamics, across the eastern United States

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1504-1517

  Vanderwel, Mark C ^a,b   Coomes, David A ^c   Purves, Drew W ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAIN; Carbon fluxes; Forest inventory and analysis; Hierarchical Bayes; Mortality; Simulation modeling; Tree demography

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON FLUX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; MORTALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREES; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84875849642     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12152     Document Type: Article

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