Global warming and tropical land-use change : Greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning, decomposition and soils in forest conversion, shifting cultivation and secondary vegetation

The impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is evaluated. The calculations of total net emissions of carbon indicate a major global warming impact from tropical land uses, equivalent to approximately 29% of the total anthropogenic emission from fossil-fuels and land-use change.

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Published in:Climatic change 2000-07, Vol.46 (1-2), p.115-158
Main Author: FEARNSIDE, P. M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropogenic factors
Biomass
Biomass burning
Black carbon
Boreal ecosystems
Burning
Carbon
Carbon budget
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carbon emissions
Charcoal
Clearing
Climate change
Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change
Combustion
Cultivation
Decomposition
Deforestation
Earth, ocean, space
Emissions
Equivalence
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Forests
Fossil fuels
Gases
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Human influences
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Land use
Mathematical analysis
Meteorology
Natural vegetation
Shifting cultivation
Trace gas emissions
Trace gases
Tropical environments
Tropical forests
Vegetation
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Summary:The impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is evaluated. The calculations of total net emissions of carbon indicate a major global warming impact from tropical land uses, equivalent to approximately 29% of the total anthropogenic emission from fossil-fuels and land-use change.
ISSN:0165-0009
1573-1480
DOI:10.1023/a:1005569915357