Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3049-3061

  Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Kaplan, Jed O ^b   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^c,d   Rylsky, Ilya ^e   Chaskovskyy, Oleh ^f   Tikunov, Vladimir S ^e   Müller, Daniel ^a,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Agricultural abandonment; Carbon flux; Forest transition; Long term land use change; Post Soviet land use change; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; REFORESTATION;

EASTERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CARBON;

EASTERN EUROPE; FOREST; HISTORY;

CARBON; EUROPE, EASTERN; FORESTS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY;

EID: 84937520465     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12897     Document Type: Article

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