Dead wood basic density, and the concentration of carbon and nitrogen for main tree species in managed hemiboreal forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 354, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-42

  Köster, Kajar ^a,b   Metslaid, Marek ^a   Engelhart, Jeroen ^a   Köster, Egle ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon concentration; Coarse woody debris; Decay stage; Estonia; Nitrogen concentration; Wood density

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECAY (ORGANIC); ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HARDWOODS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAKES; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); WOOD;

CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DECAY STAGES; ESTONIA; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; WOOD DENSITY;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; DEAD WOOD; DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

ESTONIA;

ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; ALNUS INCANA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 84945467903     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.06.039     Document Type: Article

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