Carbon stocks in urban forest remnants: Atlanta and baltimore as case studies

Carbon Sequestration in Urban Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-120

  Yesilonis, Ian ^a   Pouyat, R V ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Forest; Land use; Management; Urban

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HIGH-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84886380154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2366-5_5     Document Type: Chapter

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