Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 470-474

  Liu, Yi Y ^a   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^b,c   De Jeu, Richard A M ^d   Canadell, Josep G ^c   McCabe, Matthew F ^e   Evans, Jason P ^a   Wang, Guojie ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON BUDGET; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MIXED FOREST; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84928526438     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2581     Document Type: Article

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