Estimating the aboveground biomass of Bornean forest

Biotropica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 507-511

  Budiharta, Sugeng ^a,b   Slik, Ferry ^c   Raes, Niels ^d   Meijaard, Erik ^a,e,f   Erskine, Peter D ^a   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Jalan Raya Petitenget 1000X   (Indonesia)

^f CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Carbon sequestration; Carbon accounting system; Forest growth; Forest type; Process based model

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BASAL AREA; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST; GROWTH RATE; INVENTORY;

BORNEO;

EID: 84905883576     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12132     Document Type: Article

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