The implications of American chestnut reintroduction on landscape dynamics and carbon storage

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a   De Bruijn, Arjan ^a,b   Lichti, Nathanael ^b   Jacobs, Douglass F ^b   Sturtevant, Brian R ^a   Foster, Jane ^c   Miranda, Brian R ^a   Dalgleish, Harmony J ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

American chestnut; Carbon cycling; Carbon sequestration and storage; Forest landscape management; Forest landscape modeling; Forest restoration; Insect pests; LANDIS II

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018945254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1773     Document Type: Article

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