Bioenergy harvest, climate change, and forest carbon in the Oregon Coast Range

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 357-370

  Creutzburg, Megan K ^a   Scheller, Robert M ^a   Lucash, Melissa S ^a   Evers, Louisa B ^b   Leduc, Stephen D ^c   Johnson, Mark G ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Biomass energy; Carbon; Climate change; Forest; LANDIS II; Landscape modeling; Oregon Coast Range; Simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; WATERSHEDS;

BIO-ENERGY; BIO-MASS ENERGY; FOREST; LANDIS-II; LANDSCAPE MODEL; OREGON COAST RANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

COAST RANGES; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959484237     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12255     Document Type: Article

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