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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1977
If the amounts of wood consumed in deforestation to increase agricultural land and as firewood in underindustrialized countries are added to the amount consumed by the money economics as forest products, the estimates of the net amount of wood removed from the biosphere in this century should be revised upward. The per capita ratio of the weight of carbon from net wood burned to the weight of carbon from fossil fuel burned in this century has been at least 0.1 and may have approached 1.0.
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Citation: Adams, J. A. S., M. S. M. Mantovani, and L. L. Lundell. 1977. Wood versus fossil fuel as a source of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: a preliminary report. Science, v. 196, p. 54-55.
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Keywords:
- agriculture
- air quality
- Brazil
- carbon
- carbon dioxide
- chemistry
- clearcutting
- deforestation
- energy
- forest management
- forest products
- fuel types
- glaciers
- habitat conversion
- human caused fires
- rainforests
- regeneration
- sedimentation
- South America
- tropical forests
- wood
- woody fuels
Tall Timbers Record Number: 4621 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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