Mexican forest inventory expands continental carbon monitoring

Alberto Sandoval Uribe; Sean P. Healey; Gretchen Moisen; Rigoberto Palafox Rivas; Enrique Gonzalez Aguilar; Carmen Lourdes Meneses Tovar; Ernesto S. Diaz Ponce Davalos; Vanessa Silva Mascorro

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Mexican forest inventory expands continental carbon monitoring

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Authors:

Alberto Sandoval Uribe, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen, Rigoberto Palafox Rivas, Enrique Gonzalez Aguilar, Carmen Lourdes Meneses Tovar, Ernesto S. Diaz Ponce Davalos, Vanessa Silva Mascorro

Year:

2008

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89(47): 485.

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Abstract

The terrestrial ecosystems of the North American continent represent a large reservoir of carbon and a potential sink within the global carbon cycle. The recent State of the Carbon Cycle Report [U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), 2007] identified the critical role these systems may play in mitigating effects of greenhouse gases emitted from fossil fuel combustion. However, there are currently large uncertainties in continental carbon models, and the scientific community's understanding of relevant carbon sources and sinks has been much less complete in Mexico than in Canada and the United States [Birdsey et al., 2007].

Keywords

biogeosciences, carbon cycling, biogeosciences, remote sensing, global change, land cover change

Citation

Uribe, Alberto Sandoval; Healey, Sean. P.; Moisen, Gretchen G.; Rivas, Rigoberto Palafox; Aguilar, Enrique Gonzalez; Tovar, Carmen Lourdes Meneses; Davalos, Ernesto S. Diaz Ponce; Mascorro, Vanessa Silva. 2008. Mexican forest inventory expands continental carbon monitoring. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89(47): 485.