Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: A synthesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1443, 2004, Pages 549-555

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Phillips, Oliver L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Carbon balance; Carbon dioxide; Forest dynamics; Global change; Vegetation modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1642326114     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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