Carbon flow in Indian forests

Climatic Change

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-320

  Ravindranath, N H ^a   Somashekhar, B S ^a   Gadgil, Madhav ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST;

INDIA;

EID: 0030619195     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005303405404     Document Type: Review

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