Terrestrial carbon losses from mountaintop coal mining offset regional forest carbon sequestration in the 21st century

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Elliott Campbell, J ^a   Fox, James F ^b   Acton, Peter M ^b  

^a Merced   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL MINES; FORESTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL-FIRED ELECTRICITY; CRITICAL COMPONENT; CURRENT EMISSIONS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; POWER PLANT STACKS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CARBON;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; COAL MINING; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSION INVENTORY; LAND RECLAMATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; COST CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; MINING;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871840367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045701     Document Type: Article

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