Carbon emissions and sequestration in forests: Case studies from seven developing countries
Description:
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia in 1990 was releasing approximately 281--282 X 10{sup 6} metric tons (MT) of carbon on conversion to a landscape of agriculture, productive pasture, degraded pasture, secondary forest and regenerated forest in the proportions corresponding to the equilibrium condition implied by current land-use patterns. Emissions are expressed as committed carbon,'' or the carbon released over a period of years as the carbon stock in each hectare deforested approaches a new…
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Date:
August 1992
Creator:
Fearnside, Philip M.; Makundi, Willy & Sathaye, Jayany
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department