Climate-regulation services of natural and agricultural ecoregions of the Americas

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-181

  Anderson Teixeira, Kristina J ^a,b   Snyder, Peter K ^c   Twine, Tracy E ^c   Cuadra, Santiago V ^d   Costa, Marcos H ^e,f   Delucia, Evan H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Global Change Solutions LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d CENTRO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA CELSO SUCKOW DA FONSECA   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^f MCT   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOENERGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS POWER; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84857513689     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1346     Document Type: Article

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