Aboveground carbon in Quebec forests: stock quantification at the provincial scale and assessment of temperature, precipitation and edaphic properties effects on the potential stand-level stocking

Biological carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems plays an important role in the net balance of greenhouse gases, acting as a carbon sink for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the abiotic environmental factors (including climate) that control carbon stora...

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Main Authors: Louis Duchesne, Daniel Houle, Rock Ouimet, Marie-Claude Lambert, Travis Logan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1767.pdf