Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20350-20355

  Van Der Werf, G R ^a   Dempewolf, J ^b   Trigg, S N ^c   Randerson, J T ^d   Kasibhatla, P S ^e   Giglio, L ^f   Murdiyarso, D ^g   Peters, W ^h   Morton, D C ^b   Collatz, G J ⁱ   Dolman, A J ^a   DeFries, R S ^j  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^g CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^j Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biomass burning; Climate change; Feedbacks; Global carbon cycle; Indonesia

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FOSSIL FUEL; LANTHANUM;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; BORNEO; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FIRE; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SPHAGNOPSIDA;

EID: 58149479276     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803375105     Document Type: Article

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