Carbon storage in Amazonia during the Last Glacial Maximum: Secondary data and uncertainties

Chemosphere

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 821-835

  Turcq, Bruno ^a   Cordeiro, Renato C ^b   Sifeddine, Abdefettah ^a,b   Simões Filho, Francisco F L ^b   Albuquerque, Ana Luisa S ^b   Abrão, Jorge J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biomass; Carbon; Late Glacial Maximum; Quaternary; Rainforest; Soils

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SOILS;

SLOPE EROSION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SOIL CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOUTH AMERICA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036887739     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00383-1     Document Type: Article

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