Carbon sequestration in arctic and alpine tundra and mountain meadow ecosystems

The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 189-228

  Povirk, K L ^a   Welker, J M ^a   Lal, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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