Carbon balance implications of land use change from pasture to managed eucalyptus forest in Hawaii

Carbon Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 171-181

  Crow, Susan E ^a   Reeves, Mataia ^a   Turn, Scott ^b   Taniguchi, Shintaro ^b   Schubert, Olivia S ^a   Koch, Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Forest Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; carbon sequestration; climate change mitigation; eucalyptus; land use change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOILS;

BIO-ENERGY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EUCALYPTUS; LAND-USE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84982308391     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2016.1213140     Document Type: Article

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