Ecosystem carbon storage does not vary with mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2927-2937

  Selmants, Paul C ^a   Litton, Creighton M ^a   Giardina, Christian P ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Carbon stocks; Climate change; Elevation gradient; Hawaii; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

SOIL;

ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; HAWAII; LINEAR MODELS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84905125298     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12636     Document Type: Article

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