Human appropriation of net primary production, stocks and flows of carbon, and biodiversity

Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-331

  Haberl, Helmut ^a   Erb, Karl Heinz ^a   Gingrich, Simone ^a   Kastner, Thomas ^a   Krausmann, Fridolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Biomass; Carbon emission; Carbon flow accounting; Carbon sink; Carbon stock; Human appropriation of net primary production; Long term socioecological research (LTSER); Socioeconomic metabolism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; LAND USE;

AUSTRIA; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON FLOW; CARBON SINK; CARBON STOCKS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC METABOLISMS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84897095122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6455-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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