Amazonian deforestation and global warming: Carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 21-34

  Fearnside, Philip M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Fallow; Greenhouse effect; Pasture; Secondary succession; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCK; CLIMATIC CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEFORESTATION EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION; LAND USE; NET RELEASE; SECONDARY FOREST GROWTH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

BRAZIL, AMAZONAS; BRAZIL, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0029667211     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(95)03647-4     Document Type: Article

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