Opportunities and constraints for forest climate mitigation

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 698-707

  Jackson, Robert B ^a   Baker, Justin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon storage and sequestration; climate change and leakage; invasions and water use; REDD; transgenic Eucalyptus hybrid

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS HYBRIDA;

EID: 77957936802     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.9.7     Document Type: Article

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