Wood production response to climate change will depend critically on forest composition and structure

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3632-3645

  Coomes, David A ^a   Flores, Olivier ^b   Holdaway, Robert ^c   Jucker, Tommaso ^a   Lines, Emily R ^a,d   Vanderwel, Mark C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest inventories; Forest wood production; Hierarchical Bayes; Temperate rainforest; Terrestrial carbon sink; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; WOOD;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84912012435     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12622     Document Type: Article

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