Assessment of major pools and fluxes of carbon in Indian forests

Climatic Change

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-360

  Chhabra, Abha ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

AFFORESTATION; PHYTOMASS DEGRADATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LITTERFALL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 3342980644     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000025740.50082.e7     Document Type: Review

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