Accounting for biological and anthropogenic factors in national land-base carbon budgets

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 220-226

  Turner, David P ^a   Winjum, Jack K ^c   Kolchugina, Tatyana P ^a   Cairns, Michael A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; FOREST HARVEST; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANCOVER CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PATTERN; NATIONAL SURVEY; WILDFIRE;

EID: 0030776679     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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