Contribution of forests and forestry in Finland to mitigate greenhouse effect

Biotechnology, Agronomy and Society and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-280

  Karjalainen, Timo ^a   Mäkipää, Raisa ^b  

^a EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon; Finland; Forest inventory; Forest management; National communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011872473     PISSN: 13706233     EISSN: 17804507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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