Converting terrestrial ecosystems from sources to sinks of carbon

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 267-272

  Houghton, Richard A ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 0029663008     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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46. Support for this work was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of Mission to Planet Earth, by the U S Environmental Protection Agency's Corvallis Laboratory, and by the U.S. Country Studies Program.