Carbon sink potential of radiata pine plantations in Chile

Forestry

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-19

  Espinosa, Miguel ^a   Acuña, Eduardo ^a   Cancino, Jorge ^a   Muñoz, Fernando ^a   Perry, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; HARVESTING; PLANTATION FORESTRY;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 14844332741     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpi002     Document Type: Article

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