The relative importance of climate, stand variables and liana abundance for carbon storage in tropical forests

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 939-949

  Durán, Sandra M ^a   Sánchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^a   Rios, Rodrigo S ^b   Gianoli, Ernesto ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aboveground carbon storage; Dry forest; Dryness index; Evapotranspiration; Liana abundance; Moist forests; Old growth forests; Structural equation modelling; Temperature; Wet forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; ABUNDANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE EFFECT; EQUATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODELING; STAND DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84936205645     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12304     Document Type: Article

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