Modeling biomass burning emissions for amazon forest and pastures in Rondônia, Brazil

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Guild, Liane S ^a,b   Boone Kauffman, J ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^a   Hlavka, Christine A ^b   Ward, Darold E ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Enviropyronics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biomass burning; Brazil; Carbon; Land use; Land cover change; Pasture; Primary forest; Regenerating forest; Rond nia; Trace gas emissions

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON EMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

RONDONIA;

EID: 4444316263     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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