Carbon storage and sequestration in the Russian forest sector

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 284-288

  Krankina, Olga N ^a,b   Harmon, Mark E ^b   Winjum, Jack K ^c,d  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0029662951     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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48. The senior author would like to thank Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the US Country Studies Program for the invitation to participate in the Regional Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Mitigation Strategies for Asian and Pacific Countries. Her participation in the Workshop prompted the writing of this paper.