The Use of Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes to Track Effects of Land-Use Changes in the Brazilian Amazon Region

Terrestrial Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 301-318

  Martinelli, Luiz Antonio ^a   Ometto, Jean Pierre Henry Balbauld ^a   Ishida, Françoise Yoko ^a   Domingues, Tomas Ferreira ^a   Nardoto, Gabriela Bielefeld ^a   Oliveira, Rafael Silva ^a   Ehleringer, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 44349176015     PISSN: 19367961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1936-7961(07)01019-6     Document Type: Review

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