Title: Terrestrial carbon storage: Global lessons for Amazonian research
Abstract:Five different approaches have been used to attempt to define the net exchange of carbon terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere: 1) Direct measurement of the amount of carbon held in ecosystems (fo...Five different approaches have been used to attempt to define the net exchange of carbon terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere: 1) Direct measurement of the amount of carbon held in ecosystems (forest inventories); 2)direct measurement of carbon dioxide flux above an ecosystem; 3) modeling changes in productivity and respiration that result from environmental change; 4) modelling the global carbon cycle with geochemical data and constrains; and modeling changes in terrestrial carbon that result from changes in land use. For Amazonia, the opportunity exists for using all five approaches to determine not only the flux of carbon from changes in land use, but the net accumulation or loss of carbon in undisturbed ecosystems, and the total region-wide flux from all processes. (author) 97 refs., 8 figs., 4 tabsRead More
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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