Reduced methane emissions from large-scale changes in water management of China's rice paddies during 1980-2000

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Li, Changsheng ^a   Qiu, Jianjun ^b   Frolking, Steve ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a   Salas, William ^a   Moore, Berrien ^a   Boles, Steve ^a   Huang, Yao ^c   Sass, Ronald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FLOODS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; GROWING SEASON; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE FLUXES; MID-SEASON DRAINAGE; RATE OF INCREASE; REGIONAL PREDICTIONS;

METHANE;

EID: 0037110312     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015370     Document Type: Article

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