Phytomass carbon pool of trees and forests in India

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 243-259

  Kaul, Meenakshi ^a   Mohren, G M J ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

23 MILLION; CARBON DENSITY; CARBON DYNAMICS; CARBON POOL; DENSITY ESTIMATES; FOREST AREA; FUEL WOOD; GROWING STOCKS; NATURAL FORESTS; PHYTOMASS; PLANTATION FORESTS; SEQUESTERING CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL BIOMASS; TREE COVER;

DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LAKES; PLANT EXTRACTS; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON CYCLE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUELWOOD; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOMASS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON; DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; INDIA; LAKES; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; TREE DIMENSIONS;

INDIA;

EID: 80052266059     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9986-3     Document Type: Article

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