Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1840, 2016, Pages

  Meineke, Emily ^a   Youngsteadt, Elsa ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^a,b   Frank, Steven D ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Herbivory; Urban ecology; Urban heat island effect

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ARTHROPOD; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HEAT ISLAND; HERBIVORY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WARMING;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

CARBON;

ANIMAL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INSECTA; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84990175921     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1574     Document Type: Article

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