Carbon balance of a partially harvested mixed conifer forest following mountain pine beetle attack and its comparison to a clear-cut

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5451-5463

  Mathys, A ^a   Black, T A ^a   Nesic, Z ^a   Nishio, G ^b   Brown, M ^a,c   Spittlehouse, D L ^d   Fredeen, A L ^e   Bowler, R ^e   Jassal, R S ^a   Grant, N J ^a   Burton, P J ^e,f   Trofymow, J A ^f   Meyer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84882321112     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-5451-2013     Document Type: Article

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