Recovery of Ecosystem Carbon Stocks in Young Boreal Forests: A Comparison of Harvesting and Wildfire Disturbance

Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 851-863

  Seedre, Meelis ^a,c,d   Taylor, Anthony R ^a,b   Brassard, Brian W ^a   Chen, Han Y H ^a   Jõgiste, Kalev ^c  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

boreal forest; carbon; climate change; disturbance; fire; harvest; productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON FLUX; CLEARCUTTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEAD WOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FLOOR; HARVESTING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SOIL CARBON; WILDFIRE; WOODY DEBRIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84904263593     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9763-7     Document Type: Article

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