Carbon sequestration and turnover in semiarid savannas and dry forest

Climatic Change

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-117

  Tiessen, H ^a   Feller, C ^b   Sampaio, E V S B ^c   Garin, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d CIRAP SAR   (France)

Author keywords

C sequestration; Mitigation; Semiarid tropics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST; LAND USE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; BRAZIL;

EID: 0031717439     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005342932178     Document Type: Article

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