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Deforestation and methane release from termites in Amazonia
Christopher Martins,Christopher Martins,Philip M. Fearnside,Adelmar Gomes Bandeira,Reiner Wassmann +4 more
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In this article, the role of termite populations in the change of global atmospheric methane concentrations was evaluated based on a model that uses literature information on termite population size in primary forest and pasture 1 to 10 years after forest conversion, wood consumption and methane emission rates of termites.About:
This article is published in Chemosphere.The article was published on 1996-08-01. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Atmospheric methane & Old-growth forest.read more
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Global warming and tropical land-use change: greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning, decomposition and soils in forest conversion, shifting cultivation and secondary vegetation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that tropical forest conversion, shifting cultivation and clearing of secondary vegetation make significant contributions to global emissions of greenhouse gases today, and have the potential for large additional emissions in future decades.
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Termites in Ecosystems
David E. Bignell,Paul Eggleton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a range of abundance and biomass of termites in major ecosystems and biogeographical regions is discussed, and representative data are tabulated; transect methods are recommended for biodiversity surveys as they are efficient and have acceptable accuracy.
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Soil carbon changes from conversion of forest to pasture in Brazilian Amazonia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared roughly simultaneous samples taken at nearby sites with different use histories (i.e., "chronosequences") to evaluate the response of soil carbon pools to conversion to cattle pasture.
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Greenhouse gases from deforestation in brazilian amazonia: net committed emissions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider 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.
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Climate change : the IPCC scientific assessment
TL;DR: A review of the intergovernmental panel on climate change report on global warming and the greenhouse effect can be found in this paper, where the authors present chemistry of greenhouse gases and mathematical modelling of the climate system.
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Climate change 1992 : the supplementary report to the IPCC scientific assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an update of the emissions scenarios for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which is based on the results of the 1992 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (JDSN).
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The Storage and Production of Organic Matter in Tropical Forests and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
Sandra Brown,Ariel E. Lugo +1 more
TL;DR: The linear relationship between biomass and litterfall suggested that the turnover time of biomass in mature tropical forests is similar for all life zones, and is of the order of 34 yr.
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Biomass of Tropical Forests: A New Estimate Based on Forest Volumes
Sandra Brown,Ariel E. Lugo +1 more
TL;DR: These values are considerably lower than those previously reported and raise questions about the role of the terrestrial biota in the global carbon budget.