Above-ground carbon stocks in tropical fallows, Sarawak, Malaysia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 225, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 287-295

  Jepsen, Martin Rudbeck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allometric equations; Biomass accumulation; Carbon; Chronosequence; Secondary regrowth; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CULTIVATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; SECONDARY REGROWTH; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; REGROWTH;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CULTIVATION;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33645068610     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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