Effects of harvesting on spatial and temporal diversity of carbon stocks in a boreal forest landscape

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3738-3750

  Ter Mikaelian, Michael T ^a   Colombo, Stephen J ^a   Chen, Jiaxin ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest age; Forest carbon; Forest harvesting; Managed forest; Wood products

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887526108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.751     Document Type: Article

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