Aligning ecology and markets in the forest carbon cycle

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-42

  Hurteau, Matthew D ^a   Hungate, Bruce A ^b   Koch, George W ^b   North, Malcolm P ^c   Smith, Gordon R ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d Ecofor LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON CYCLE; MARKET CONDITIONS; POLLUTION POLICY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875866498     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120039     Document Type: Article

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