Forest Thinning in Ponderosa Pines Increases Carbon Use Efficiency and Energy Flow From Primary Producers to Primary Consumers

Agriculture & Biology

• forest thinning 100%
• energy flow 81%
• Pinus ponderosa 77%
• carbon 39%
• herbivores 15%
• breathing 10%
• climate 9%
• fire hazard 9%
• gross primary productivity 9%
• carbon cycle 8%
• net primary productivity 7%
• fine roots 6%
• thinning (plants) 6%
• food chain 6%
• understory 6%
• cameras 6%
• uncertainty 6%
• rhizosphere 5%
• traps 5%
• feces 4%
• canopy 4%
• mammals 4%
• stems 3%
• energy 3%
• soil 3%
• leaves 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• energy flow 69%
• thinning 58%
• pine 52%
• carbon 34%
• biomass allocation 20%
• herbivory 18%
• respiration 13%
• fine root 9%
• net primary production 9%
• climate effect 8%
• understory 8%
• herbivore 7%
• food chain 7%
• rhizosphere 7%
• carbon cycle 7%
• seasonality 7%
• primary production 7%
• stem 6%
• mammal 6%
• monsoon 6%
• canopy 6%
• consumption 5%
• disturbance 5%
• climate 4%
• energy 3%
• simulation 3%
• soil 3%