Forest management scenarios in a changing climate: Trade-offs between carbon, timber, and old forest: Trade-offs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 503-518

  Creutzburg, Megan K ^a   Scheller, Robert M ^a   Lucash, Melissa S ^a   LeDuc, Stephen D ^b,c   Johnson, Mark G ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; climate change; ecological forestry; forest ecology; LANDIS II; landscape modeling; Northwest Forest Plan; Oregon Coast Range; retention harvest; wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RETENTION; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMBER; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OREGON; PROCEDURES; TREE; WOOD;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; FORESTS; OREGON; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 85014555910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1460     Document Type: Article

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