A 100-year conservation experiment: Impacts on forest carbon stocks and fluxes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 242-255

  Sharma, Tara ^a   Kurz, Werner A ^b   Stinson, Graham ^b   Pellatt, Marlow G ^a   Li, Qinglin ^c  

^a PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; Conservation; Forest; Mitigation; National park

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; FOREST; FOREST CONSERVATION; GLACIER NATIONAL PARKS; MITIGATION; NATIONAL PARKS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; LOGGING (FORESTRY);

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; WILDFIRE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LOGGING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS; GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [BRITISH COLUMBIA]; KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK; PURCELL MOUNTAINS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; YOHO NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84884136084     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.048     Document Type: Article

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