Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 14256-14261

  DeFries, Ruth S ^a   Houghton, Richard A ^b   Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Field, Christopher B ^c   Skole, David ^d   Townshend, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TREE GROWTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AFRICA; ASIA; CARBON; LATIN AMERICA; SPACECRAFT; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0037195162     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.182560099     Document Type: Article

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