Quantifying ecological drivers of ecosystem productivity of the early-successional boreal Larix gmelinii forest

Ecosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Zhihua ^a   Yang, Jian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Boreal forest; Climate change; Fire; Larch; Net primary productivity (NPP); Northeast china

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940314931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00372.1     Document Type: Article

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