The relationship between land-use change and climate change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 753-769

  Dale, Virginia H ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forests, affected by climate change; Global circulation models; Global models of vegetation change; Greenhouse gases, sources of; Human induced climate change; Land cover changes; Land use change and climate change; Land use changes, non climatic causes; Modeling carbon flux; Relation to land use changes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN IMPACT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDCOVER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

EID: 0030614217     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0753:TRBLUC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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