Estimating carbon carrying capacity in natural forest ecosystems across heterogeneous landscapes: addressing sources of error

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2010

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Keith, Heather
Mackey, Brendan
Berry, Sandra Lee
Gibbons, Philip
Lindenmayer, David B

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Evaluating contributions of forest ecosystems to climate change mitigation requires well-calibrated carbon cycle models with quantified baseline carbon stocks. An appropriate baseline for carbon accounting of natural forests at landscape scales is carbon

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Keywords: baseline conditions; carbon cycle; carbon sequestration; carrying capacity; climate change; environmental disturbance; forest ecosystem; growth response; human activity; landscape ecology; net primary production; temperate forest; uncertainty analysis; Au Carbon accounting baseline; Forest carbon stocks; Net primary production; Total ecosystem carbon; Uncertainty analysis

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Global Change Biology

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