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Part II reviews the available information and contemporary understanding of past and present changes in global and regional terrestrial ecosystem carbon (C) pools, and of the C fluxes associated with forest management and land-use activities. Tropical, temperate and boreal forests are assessed separately, in recognition of the profound differences in their ecological dynamics and socio-economic pressures. The possibilties for managing existing forest ecosystems sustainably, and for reclamation of degraded forest lands, as C stores are examined. Some projections of future changes (under future climate and socio-economic scenarios) are also reviewed.
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Price, D.T., Apps, M.J. (1996). Introduction. In: Apps, M.J., Price, D.T. (eds) Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Carbon Cycle. NATO ASI Series, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61111-7_11
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