Assessing the global warming potential of human settlement expansion in a mesic temperate landscape from 2005 to 2050

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 545-546, Issue , 2016, Pages 512-524

  Reinmann, Andrew B ^a   Hutyra, Lucy R ^a   Trlica, Andrew ^a   Olofsson, Pontus ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Carbon; Climate change; Forests; Land use change land cover change; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; EXPANSION; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

ALBEDO; FORESTS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; URBANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON; FOSSIL FUEL;

ALBEDO; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ALBEDO; ARTICLE; CARBON SINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOUSING; HUMAN SETTLEMENT EXPANSION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MASSACHUSETTS; POPULATION GROWTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 84952685314     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.033     Document Type: Article

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