Tropical Mexico's recent land-use change: A region's contribution to the global carbon cycle

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1426-1441

  Cairns, Michael A ^a   Haggerty, Patricia K ^b   Alvarez, Roman ^c   De Jong, Ben H J ^d   Olmsted, Ingrid ^e  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Carbon flux; Deforestation in tropical Mexico; Forests, decline in area; Global carbon cycle; Greenhouse gases; Land cover and global C cycle; Land use changes; Mexico, tropical

Indexed keywords

AGROECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST; LAND USE; SURFACE AREA; TROPICS; UNITED STATES;

CARBON CYCLE; LAND USE CHANGE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0034483584     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1426:TMSRLU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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