Carbon storage in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems: Approaching a more accurate estimate

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 905-917

  Ni, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNIQUE; ESTIMATION METHODS; FOREST AND GRASSLAND; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; REGIONAL VARIATION; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON; FORESTRY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOME; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CARBON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANTS;

CHINA;

EID: 84880571443     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0767-7     Document Type: Article

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