Tree species diversity mitigates disturbance impacts on the forest carbon cycle

Oecologia

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 619-630

  Silva Pedro, Mariana ^a   Rammer, Werner ^a   Seidl, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Forest landscape dynamics; iLand model; Natural disturbances; Tree diversity

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FORESTS; TREES;

EID: 84925538568     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3150-0     Document Type: Article

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