Impact of carbon storage through restoration of drylands on the global carbon cycle

Environmental Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 757-766

  Keller, Arturo A ^a   Goldstein, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Drylands; Fossil fuel emissions; Global carbon; Land degradation; Land restoration; Terrestrial storage

Indexed keywords

DRYLANDS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE (GLOCO) MODEL;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; LAND RECLAMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; THERMAL EFFECTS; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DRYLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GLOBAL WARMING;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; MODEL; NITROGEN FIXATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VEGETATION;

EID: 0032171698     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900145     Document Type: Article

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