Evidence for environmentally enhanced forest growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 9527-9532

  Fang, Jingyun ^a,b   Kato, Tomomichi ^c   Guo, Zhaodi ^a   Yang, Yuanhe ^b   Hu, Huifeng ^b   Shen, Haihua ^b   Zhao, Xia ^b   Kishimoto Mo, Ayaka W ^d   Tang, Yanhong ^e   Houghton, Richard A ^f  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass carbon sink; Forest age; Forest inventory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS DENSITY; CLIMATE; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

BIOMASS CARBON SINK; FOREST AGE; FOREST INVENTORY;

AGE FACTORS; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84903743669     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402333111     Document Type: Article

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