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Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest Cover

Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 66 (2014): Issue 1
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|Jan 2014
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v66.23188 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 23188 - 23188
Submitted on: Oct 28, 2013
Accepted on: Apr 24, 2014
Published on: Jan 1, 2014
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
land use change,
carbon cycle,
carbon budget,
wood harvest,
shifting cultivation,
terrestrial carbon sink

© 2014 Benjamin D. Stocker, Fabian Feissli, Kuno M. Strassmann, Renato Spahni, Fortunat Joos, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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