Total aboveground biomass in central Amazonian rainforests: A landscape-scale study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 168, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 311-321

  Nascimento, Henrique E M ^a   Laurance, William F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Amazon basin; Biomass; Carbon cycle; Carbon storage; Global warming; Terra firme forest; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFOREST;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036723043     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00749-6     Document Type: Article

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