Fire regimes and variability in aboveground woody biomass in miombo woodland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1014-1029

  Saito, Makoto ^a,b   Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^a   Poulter, Ben ^a,c   Williams, Mathew ^d   Ciais, Philippe ^a   Bellassen, Valentin ^e   Ryan, Casey M ^d   Yue, Chao ^a   Cadule, Patricia ^a   Peylin, Philippe ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e CDC Climat Research   (France)

Author keywords

biomass; fire regime; resprouting; savanna; self thinning; topkill

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE HISTORY; GRASS; RESPROUTING; SAVANNA; SELF THINNING; WOODLAND; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA;

EID: 84902438405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002505     Document Type: Article

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