Large-scale variation in boreal and temperate forest carbon turnover rate related to climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4576-4585

  Thurner, Martin ^a,b   Beer, Christian ^a   Carvalhais, Nuno ^b,c   Forkel, Matthias ^b,d   Santoro, Maurizio ^e   Tum, Markus ^f   Schmullius, Christiane ^g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

boreal and temperate forest; drought stress; forest carbon turnover rate; forest mortality; frost stress; insects

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FROST EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

BOREAL AND TEMPERATE FOREST; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST CARBONS; FOREST MORTALITY; INSECTS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FROST; INSECT; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATE FOREST; TURNOVER;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84969916819     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068794     Document Type: Article

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