Carbon sequestration in wetland dominated coastal systems-a global sink of rapidly diminishing magnitude

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 186-194

  Hopkinson, Charles S ^a   Cai, Wei Jun ^a   Hu, Xinping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL WETLAND; DISTURBANCE; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAGNITUDE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RIVER SYSTEM; TIMBER HARVESTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84860622247     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.03.005     Document Type: Review

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