Recarbonization of the humid tropics

Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 229-252

  Venter, Michelle ^a   Venter, Oscar ^a   Laurance, Susan ^a   Bird, Michael ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Anthropogenic carbon emissions; Biomass carbon; Carbon fluxes; Carbon pool; Carbon pools; Carbon sequestration; Carbon sequestration potential; Carbon sink capacity; CO2 fertilization; Deforestation; Degraded lands; Extractive industry; Fires; Global carbon cycle; Humid tropics; Land use change; Logging; Management interventions; Missing terrestrial sink; Mitigation; Pedologic pool; Plantation; REDD; Reduced impact logging; Restoration plantings; Sink for atmospheric carbon; Tropical humid forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876108024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4159-1_11     Document Type: Chapter

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