Dynamics of carbon sequestration in various agroclimatic zones of Uganda

Climate Change and Global Food Security

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 501-514

  Tenywa, Moses M ^a   Mwanjalolo, Majaliwa ^a   Magunda, Matthias K ^b   Lal, Rattan ^c   Taulya, Godfrey ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute   (Uganda)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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