Landscape-scale controls on aboveground forest carbon stocks on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Taylor, Philip ^a   Asner, Gregory ^b   Dahlin, Kyla ^c   Anderson, Christopher ^b   Knapp, David ^b   Martin, Roberta ^b   Mascaro, Joseph ^b   Chazdon, Robin ^d   Cole, Rebecca ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^e   Hofhansl, Florian ^e   Malavassi, Edgar ^f   Vilchez Alvarado, Braulio ^f   Townsend, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ABOVEGROUND CARBON DENSITY; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; PHENOTYPE; TOP OF CANOPY HEIGHT; METABOLISM; REMOTE SENSING;

OSA;

CARBON; COSTA RICA; FORESTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84935512899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126748     Document Type: Article

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