Revaluing unmanaged forests for climate change mitigation

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Krug, Joachim ^a   Koehl, Michael ^a   Kownatzki, Dierk ^a  

^a Forestry and Fisheries   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; CO2 sequestration; Forest management; Substitution; Unmanaged forests

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84868694094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-0680-7-11     Document Type: Article

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