Vegetation thickening in an ecological perspective: Significance to national greenhouse gas inventories

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 59-72

  Gifford, Roger M ^a   Howden, Mark ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bush encroachment; Carbon stocks; Climate change; Emissions; Kyoto Protocol; Land use change; Savanna; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0002761019     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00109-X     Document Type: Article

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