What is the value of agricultural census data in carbon cycle studies?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Chan, Eric C ^a   Lin, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CENSUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79961224224     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001617     Document Type: Article

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