Modeling carbon stocks in a secondary tropical dry forest in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Dai, Zhaohua ^a,b   Birdsey, Richard A ^a   Johnson, Kristofer D ^a   Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^c   Hernandez Stefanoni, Jose Luis ^c   Richardson, Karen ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Bureau 200   (Canada)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biomass; Disturbance; Forest DNDC; Greenhouse gas; Tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; MAGNESIUM; SOILS; TROPICS;

DENITRIFICATION DECOMPOSITIONS (DNDC); DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; DISTURBANCE; DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; FOREST-DNDC; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL DRY FOREST;

FORESTRY;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; DISTURBANCE; DRY FOREST; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SECONDARY FOREST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DYNAMICS; CARBON STOCK; CARBON STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FOREST; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MEXICO; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION; PROCESS MODEL; SOIL; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; SOIL;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84897037264     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-1925-x     Document Type: Article

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