Land use change emission scenarios: Anticipating a forest transition process in the Brazilian Amazon

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1821-1840

  Aguiar, Ana Paula Dutra ^a   Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães ^b   Assis, Talita Oliveira ^a   Dalla Nora, Eloi L ^a   Toledo, Peter Mann ^a   Oliveira Santos Junior, Roberto Araújo ^a   Batistella, Mateus ^c,d   Coelho, Andrea Santos ^e   Savaget, Elza Kawakami ^d   Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz ^a   Nobre, Carlos Afonso ^f   Ometto, Jean Pierre H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e AMAZON   (United States)

^f MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF BRAZIL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; CO2 emissions; Deforestation; Forest degradation; Forest transition; Scenarios; Secondary vegetation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLEARCUTTING; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BRAZIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BRAZIL; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS;

EID: 84958824876     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13134     Document Type: Article

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