Bridging empirical and carbon-balance based forest site productivity - Significance of below-ground allocation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 372, Issue , 2016, Pages 64-77

  Mäkelä, Annikki ^a   Pulkkinen, Minna ^a   Mäkinen, Harri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Below ground allocation; Dominant height; Mean annual increment; Picea abies; Process based model; Site index

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

BELOW-GROUND ALLOCATION; DOMINANT HEIGHT; MEAN ANNUAL INCREMENTS; PICEA ABIES; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; SITE INDEX;

FORESTRY;

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; HEIGHT; SITE INDEX;

FINLAND;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84962637048     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.059     Document Type: Article

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