Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 798-818

  Page, Susan E ^a   Rieley, John O ^b   Banks, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Carbon pool; Peat; Peat area; Peat thickness; Peat volume; Tropical peatland

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; PEATLAND; PREDICTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDONESIA; MALAYSIA;

EID: 78649240237     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02279.x     Document Type: Article

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