Climate and atmospheric drivers of historical terrestrial carbon uptake in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 635-649

  Peng, Y ^a   Arora, V K ^a   Kurz, W A ^b   Hember, R A ^b,c   Hawkins, B J ^a   Fyfe, J C ^a   Werner, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST INVENTORY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; GROWTH RATE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84893611993     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-635-2014     Document Type: Article

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