Spatial variation in the storages and age-related dynamics of forest carbon sequestration in different climate zones-evidence from black locust plantations on the loess plateau of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Li, Taijun ^a   Ren, Bowen ^a   Wang, Dahui ^a   Liu, Guobin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SOURCE; CARBON STORAGE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST STAND; HUMIDITY; PLANT AGE; PLANTATION; PREDICTION; REFORESTATION; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SOIL CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; FOREST; METABOLISM; ROBINIA; TIME FACTOR;

ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; HUMIDITY; ROBINIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925870299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121862     Document Type: Article

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