Increase in carbon emissions from forest fires after intensive reforestation and forest management programs

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 372, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 225-235

  Choi, Sung Deuk ^a   Chang, Yoon Seok ^a   Park, Byung Kwon ^b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carbon emission; Forest fires; Korean forest; Plantation; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; REFORESTATION;

CARBON DENSITY; CARBON EMISSION; KOREAN FOREST;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CARBON;

CARBON EMISSION; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REFORESTATION;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; KOREA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFORESTATION; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FIRES; FORESTRY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; KOREA; TREES;

FOREST FIRES; PLANTATIONS; REFORESTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 33751009621     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.09.024     Document Type: Article

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