Carbon sequestration studies in agroforestry systems: A reality-check

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-253

  Nair, P K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric equations; Biomass determination; Design and sampling problems; Global carbon models; Soil bulk density

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGROFORESTRY; ALLOMETRY; BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84867198565     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-011-9434-z     Document Type: Article

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