Accountable accounting: Carbon-based management on marginal lands

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 847-861

  DiRocco, Tara L ^a   Ramage, Benjamin S ^a   Evans, Samuel G ^b   Potts, Matthew D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon dynamics; Forest carbon sequestration; Forest recovery; Land use change

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

AFFORESTATION; CARBON DYNAMICS; FOREST CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST RECOVERY; LAND-USE CHANGE;

CARBON;

ACCOUNTABILITY; AFFORESTATION; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 84902650121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5040847     Document Type: Article

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