Climate stabilization wedges revisited: Can agricultural production and greenhouse-gas reduction goals be accomplished?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 571-578

  Del Grosso, Stephen J ^a   Cavigelli, Michel A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; NITROUS OXIDE; PROTEIN; REFORESTATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 84870412256     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120058     Document Type: Review

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