The human carbon budget: An estimate of the spatial distribution of metabolic carbon consumption and release in the United States

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-41

  West, Tristram O ^a   Marl, Gregg ^a,b   Singh, Nagendra ^c   Bhaduri, Budhendra L ^c   Roddy, Adam B ^d,e  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon dioxide; Food consumption; Horizontal carbon transfer; Population; Respiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961204770     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-009-9306-z     Document Type: Article

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