Forecasting effects of tree species reintroduction strategies on carbon stocks in a future without historical analog

Global Change Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 5500-5517

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a   Sturtevant, Brian R ^a   de Bruijn, Arjan M G ^a,b   Lichti, Nathanael ^b   Jacobs, Douglass F ^b   Kashian, Daniel M ^c   Miranda, Brian R ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

American chestnut; Castanea dentata; central Appalachians; climate change; elevated CO2; forest carbon stocks; forest succession; LANDIS II; PnET Succession

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; PHENOLOGY; REINTRODUCTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TREE;

APPALACHIANS;

CASTANEA DENTATA; HEXAPODA;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAGACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARYLAND; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FAGACEAE; MARYLAND; TREES;

EID: 85052368036     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14397     Document Type: Article

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