CO2 emissions from land-use change affected more by nitrogen cycle, than by the choice of land-cover data

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2893-2906

  Jain, Atul K ^a   Meiyappan, Prasanth ^a   Song, Yang ^a   House, Joanna I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Carbon emissions; Land use change; Model; Nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; NITROGEN CYCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSIONS; CHEMISTRY; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODEL; NITROGEN CYCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSIONS; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODEL; NITROGEN CYCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN;

EID: 84881557456     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12207     Document Type: Article

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