Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1289-1303

  Babst, Flurin ^a,b   Bouriaud, Olivier ^c   Papale, Dario ^d   Gielen, Bert ^e   Janssens, Ivan A ^e   Nikinmaa, Eero ^f   Ibrom, Andreas ^g   Wu, Jian ^g   Bernhofer, Christian ^h   Köstner, Barbara ^h   Grünwald, Thomas ^h   Seufert, Günther ⁱ   Ciais, Philippe ^j   Frank, David ^a,k  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice Romania   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^j LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Biomass; Biometry; Carbon allocation; Carbon cycle; Carbon sink; Flux tower; Forest productivity; Wood density

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FLUX TOWER; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SEASON; TREE; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY;

BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; FLUX TOWER; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; WOOD DENSITY;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; SEASONS; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84895066029     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12589     Document Type: Article

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