Total carbon accumulation in a tropical forest landscape

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sierra, Carlos A ^a,b   del Valle, Jorge I ^c   Restrepo, Hector I ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Research Centre on Ecosystems and Global Change (Carbono and Bosques)   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DEFORESTATION; LANDSCAPE; SECONDARY FOREST; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL FOREST;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 84871163444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-0680-7-12     Document Type: Article

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