Bamboo as carbon sink-fact or fiction?*

Journal of Bamboo and Rattan

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 103-114

  Liese, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bamboo; Bamboo products; Biomass; CO2 sequestration; Life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959772264     PISSN: 09734449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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