Land use and carbon dynamics in the southeastern United States from 1992 to 2050

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b   Sohl, Terry ^b   Young, Claudia ^b   Werner, Jeremy ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon fluxes; carbon sequestration; carbon stocks; land use and land cover change (LUCC); process based ecosystem model

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE;

CARBON FLUXES; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCKS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; PROCESS-BASED ECOSYSTEM MODEL;

CARBON;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON CYCLE; FOREST COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REGIONAL PATTERN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CARBON; CHELATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891957862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044022     Document Type: Article

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