Opportunities for advancing carbon cycle science in Mexico: Toward a continental scale understanding

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 21, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-93

  Vargas, Rodrigo ^a   Loescher, Henry W ^b,c   Arredondo, Tulio ^d   Huber Sannwald, Elisabeth ^d   Lara Lara, Rubén ^a   Yépez, Enrico A ^e  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^e INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbon fluxes; Climate change; Ecological networks; Land; Monitoring; NACP; North America; Ocean; Policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SCALE; ECOLOGY; FUNDING; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATION; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861835143     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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