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Impacts of forest-to-agriculture conversion on aboveground and soil carbon and nitrogen stocks along a bioclimatic gradient in Costa Rica

Creator:

Jobse, Judith C.

Abstract:

Tropical forest-to-agriculture conversions contribute to ~20% of contemporary global C emissions. Current global C flux estimates assume C is lost from vegetation and soils over time due to this conversion, and that C stocks in agricultural lands are fairly uniform across the tropics. Global C stock and flux estimates may...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

essential in making the dissertation a readable document. I thank Drs. Selina Heppell and Steven Perakis