Spatial simulation of the effect of fire and harvest on aboveground tree biomass in boreal forests of Northeast China

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1187-1200

  Luo, Xu ^a   He, Hong S ^b   Liang, Yu ^a   Wang, Wen J ^b   Wu, Zhiwei ^a   Fraser, Jacob S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Harvest; LANDIS; Model verification; The Great Xing'an Mountains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905054326     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0051-x     Document Type: Article

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