Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 63-68

  Carlson, Kimberly M ^a,b   Gerber, James S ^a   Mueller, Nathaniel D ^c   Herrero, Mario ^d   MacDonald, Graham K ^a,e   Brauman, Kate A ^a   Havlik, Petr ^f   O'Connell, Christine S ^a,g   Johnson, Justin A ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^h   West, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; PEATLAND;

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EID: 85008411677     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3158     Document Type: Article

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