The terrestrial carbon cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5368, 1998, Pages 1393-1394

  Steffen, Will ^a   Noble, Ian ^a   Canadell, Josep ^a   Apps, Michael ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^a   Jarvis, Paul G ^a   Baldocchi, Dennis ^a   Ciais, Phillipe ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a   Ehleringer, James ^a   Farquhar, Graham ^a   Field, Christopher B ^a   Ghazi, Anver ^a   Gifford, Roger ^a   Heimann, Martin ^a   Houghton, Richard ^a   Kabat, Pavel ^a   Körner, Christian ^a   Lambin, Eric ^a   Linder, Sune ^a   Mooney, Harold A ^a   Murdiyarso, Daniel ^a   Post, Wilfred M ^a   Prentice, I Colin ^a   Raupach, Michael R ^a   Schimel, David S ^a   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^a   Valentini, Riccardo ^a   more..

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL;

BIOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXHAUST GAS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032577353     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5368.1393     Document Type: Short Survey

References (9)

1. Greenhouse Gases Sink Approach of the Kyoto Protocol (European Commission, DG XII/D, Brussels, Belgium, 1998).
2. Afforestation is establishing forests on previously nonforested land; reforestation is establishing forests on land previously forested; and deforestation is the removal of forest.
3. The comprehensive "net-net" approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
4. Budget figures in this section are based on averages from 1980 to 1990.
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9. We thank NASA, the European Commission DG XII, and the IGBP Secretariat for supporting our meeting of the IGBP Terrestrial Carbon Working Group on the terrestrial carbon cycle on 27 to 29 April 1998 in Stockholm, during which a first draft of this paper was written. Additional information is available at www.igbp.kva.se