Forest conservation, afforestation and reforestation in India: Implications for forest carbon stocks

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-222

  Ravindranath, N H ^a   Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar ^a   Murthy, Indu K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon stocks; Conservation; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949121630     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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