Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

1. Front Matter

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2. Terrestrial CO2 Flux: The Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research

   • Virginia H. Dale

   Pages 1-14

3. A Century of Land-Use Change in South and Southeast Asia

   • John F. Richards, Elizabeth P. Flint

   Pages 15-66

4. Use of GIS for Estimating Potential and Actual Forest Biomass for Continental South and Southeast Asia

   • Louis R. Iverson, Sandra Brown, Anantha Prasad, Helena Mitasova, Andrew J. R. Gillespie, Ariel E. Lugo

   Pages 67-116

5. Land-Use and Biomass Changes of Forests in Peninsular Malaysia from 1972 to 1982: A GIS Approach

   • Sandra Brown, Louis R. Iverson, Ariel E. Lugo

   Pages 117-143

6. Changing Patterns of Shifting Cultivation in Selected Countries in Southeast Asia and Their Effect on the Global Carbon Cycle

   • James Uhlig, Charles A. S. Hall, Tun Nyo

   Pages 145-200

7. Trends in Carbon Content of Vegetation in South and Southeast Asia Associated with Changes in Land Use

   • Elizabeth P. Flint, John F. Richards

   Pages 201-299

8. The Net Flux of Carbon from Deforestation and Degradation in South and Southeast Asia

   • Richard A. Houghton, Joseph L. Hackler

   Pages 301-327

9. Economic Reasons for Forest Land-Use Change: Relevance to Tropical Deforestation and the Carbon Cycle

   • Peter J. Parks

   Pages 329-363

10. Estimating CO2 Flux from Tropical Forests

    • Virginia H. Dale, Sandra Brown, Elizabeth P. Flint, Charles A. S. Hall, Richard A. Houghton, Louis R. Iverson et al.

    Pages 365-378

11. Back Matter

    Pages 379-386

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Roger C. Dahlman Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. The potential for humans to alter Earth's atmosphere has been recognized since the end of the 19th century when Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the atmospheric radiation balance and raise average global temperature. Today, atmospheric CO concentrations play an important part in the 2 climate-change debate. Sources and sinks of CO associated with land use can be 2 significant determinants of the rate and magnitude of atmospheric CO change. 2 Combustion of fossil fuels and the deforestation associated with land-use change both contribute CO to the atmosphere; in contrast, biological processes on land create 2 potential sinks for the excess CO . Thus, land-use change and associated biological 2 processes become important elements in assessments of future atmospheric CO 2 increase; land-cover properties also affect the Earth's albedo, which is a climate feedback.

• CO2 Concentration
• Deforestation
• Land Use Change
• atmosphere
• carbon dioxide
• forest
• tropical forests
• vegetation
• ecotoxicology
• air pollution and air quality

• Environmental Sciences Division, MS 6038, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

  Virginia H. Dale

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