Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

Expanding croplands to meet the needs of a growing population, changing diets, and biofuel production comes at the cost of reduced carbon stocks in natural vegetation and soils. Here, we present a spatially explicit global analysis of tradeoffs between carbon stocks and current crop yields. The diff...

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Hauptverfasser: West, Paul C., Gibbs, Holly K., Monfreda, Chad, Wagner, John, Barford, Carol C., Carpenter, Stephen R., Foley, Jonathan A.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: National Academy of Sciences 2010
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Climate Mitigation and Food Production in Tropical Landscapes Special Feature
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993385/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21041633
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1011078107
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