A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3713-3726

  Berenguer, Erika ^a   Ferreira, Joice ^b   Gardner, Toby Alan ^c,d,e   Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz ^f,g   De Camargo, Plínio Barbosa ^h   Cerri, Carlos Eduardo ^h   Durigan, Mariana ^h   De Oliveira, Raimundo Cosme ^b   Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães ⁱ   Barlow, Jos ^a,i  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^e STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biomass; Forest degradation; Logging; REDD+; Secondary forests; Soil; Vegetation; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

SOIL;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84912019390     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12627     Document Type: Article

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