Evaluating the impacts of climate variability and disturbance regimes on the historic carbon budget of a forest landscape

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 180, Issue , 2013, Pages 265-280

  Chen, B ^a,b   Arain, M A ^b   Khomik, M ^c   Trofymow, J A ^d   Grant, R F ^e   Kurz, W A ^d   Yeluripati, J ^b   Wang, Z ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Land Surface Scheme; Climate sensitivity analysis; Disturbance; Douglas fir; Forest landscape; Historic carbon dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EL NINO; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LA NINA; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CANADA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 84880593071     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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