Historical carbon emissions and uptake from the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 750-763

  Galford, Gillian L ^a,b,d   Melillo, Jerry M ^a   Kicklighter, David W ^a   Mustard, John F ^b   Cronin, Timothy W ^a,e   Cerri, Carlos E P ^c   Cerri, Carlos C ^c  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Carbon emissions; Cerrado; CO2fertilization; Crops; Global warming; Land cover and land use change; Mato Grosso Brazil; Pasture; Soils; Terrestrial ecosystems model; United Nations Collaborative Programmme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOYBEAN; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PLANT; SOIL; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; BRAZIL; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 79955516574     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1957.1     Document Type: Article

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