Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to multiple environmental changes

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Tian, Hanqin ^a   Chen, Guangsheng ^a,b   Lu, Chaoqun ^a   Xu, Xiaofeng ^c   Ren, Wei ^a   Zhang, Bowen ^a   Banger, Kamaljit ^a   Tao, Bo ^a   Pan, Shufen ^a   Liu, Mingliang ^d   Zhang, Chi ^e   Bruhwiler, Lori ^f   Wofsy, Steven ^g  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d Washington State University   (United States)

^e XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coupled biogeochemical cycles; global warming potential; greenhouse gas; methane; nitrous oxide; terrestrial ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019838402     PISSN: 20964129     EISSN: 23328878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/EHS14-0015.1     Document Type: Article

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