Biomass and greenhouse-gas emissions from land-use change in Brazil's Amazonian "arc of deforestation": The states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1968-1978

  Fearnside, Philip Martin ^a   Righi, Ciro Abbud ^b   Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro ^a   Keizer, Edwin W H ^c   Cerri, Carlos Clemente ^b   Nogueira, Euler Melo ^a   Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Greenpeace   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Burning; Carbon; Cerrado; Deforestation; Global warming; Rainforest; Savanna; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AMAZON; BURNING; CERRADO; RAINFOREST; SAVANNA; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSES; LAND USE; LEAKAGE (FLUID);

GAS EMISSIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CERRADO; COMBUSTION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAINFOREST; SAVANNA; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; CARBON; COMBUSTION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION; FORESTS; FUELS; LAND USE; LEAKAGE; RAIN;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349107930     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.042     Document Type: Article

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