Global warming and tropical land-use change: Greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning, decomposition and soils in forest conversion, shifting cultivation and secondary vegetation

Climatic Change

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 115-158

  Fearnside, Philip M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS CONVERSION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST; GAS EMISSION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE; SAVANNA; TROPICS;

EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033934331     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005569915357     Document Type: Article

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