Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 13267-13271

  Van Der Heijden, Geertje M F ^a,b,c   Powers, Jennifer S ^b,d   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Carbon sequestration; Carbon storage; Lianas; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON DYNAMICS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIANAS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; TREE GROWTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WOODY STEM; ANGIOSPERM; ANTIBIOSIS; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTIBIOSIS; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; FORESTS; PANAMA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84945555417     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504869112     Document Type: Article

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