Carbon pool and biomass dynamics associated with deforestation, land use, and agricultural abandonment in the neotropics

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1211-1222

  Kauffman, J Boone ^a   Hughes, R Flint ^a   Heider, Chris ^b  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Watershed Professionals Network (WPN)   (United States)

Author keywords

C storage potential of secondary forests; Carbon sequestration; Clean development mechanism (CDM); Ecosystem C pool quantification; Fire ecology; Land use land cover change; Nutrient pools; Pastures; REDD strategies; Secondary forests; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ABANDONED LAND; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PASTURE; REGROWTH; SECONDARY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 68149131543     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1696.1     Document Type: Article

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