Effects of land management on large trees and carbon stocks

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 855-862

  Kauppi, P E ^a   Birdsey, R A ^b   Pan, Y ^b   Ihalainen, A ^c   Nojd P ^c   Lehtonen, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; TRANSPIRATION; TREE;

FINLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923102494     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-855-2015     Document Type: Article

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