Effects of human land-use on the global carbon cycle during the last 6,000 years

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 605-615

  Olofsson, Jörgen ^a   Hickler, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon cycle; Deforestation; Dynamic global vegetation model (LPJ DGVM); Holocene; Human land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749156007     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-007-0126-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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