Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in Panama

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2763-2780

  Wolf, Sebastian ^a   Eugster, Werner ^a   Potvin, Catherine ^b,c   Turner, Benjamin L ^c   Buchmann, Nina ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide fluxes; Eddy covariance; FLUXNET; Grazing; Land use change; Managed ecosystems; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

COLON [PANAMA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SARDINILLA;

POACEAE;

EID: 79960987430     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02460.x     Document Type: Article

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