Disturbance, complexity, and succession of net ecosystem production in North America's temperate deciduous forests

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Gough, Christopher M ^a   Curtis, Peter S ^b   Hardiman, Brady S ^c   Scheuermann, Cynthia M ^a   Bond Lamberty, Ben ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon storage; Carbon uptake; Complexity; Disturbance; Ecosystem development; Forest age; Net ecosystem production; Net primary production; Structure function; Succession; Temperate deciduous forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977611198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1375     Document Type: Article

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