Comparing the influence of net and gross anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes on the carbon cycle in the MPI-ESM
Global vegetation models traditionally treat anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes (LULCCs) only as the changes in vegetation cover seen from one year to the next (net transitions). This approach ignores subgrid-scale processes such as shifting cultivation which do not affect the net v...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/4817/2014/bg-11-4817-2014.pdf |