Mitigating the greenhouse gas balance of ruminant production systems through carbon sequestration in grasslands

Animal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 334-350

  Soussana, J F ^a   Tallec, T ^a   Blanfort, V ^a,b  

^a French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

CH4; Climate change; CO2; N2O; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE;

EID: 77951217024     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731109990784     Document Type: Article

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