Agricultural encroachment: Implications for carbon sequestration in tropical African wetlands

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1312-1321

  Saunders, Matthew J ^a   Kansiime, Frank ^b   Jones, Michael B ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Carbon budgets; Colocasia esculenta; Cyperus papyrus; Eddy covariance; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE; WETLAND;

EAST AFRICA;

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; CYPERUS; CYPERUS PAPYRUS;

EID: 84858441203     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02633.x     Document Type: Article

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