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Response and Feedbacks of Forest Systems to Global Change

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International concern regarding global climate change has been growing rapidly and more than 100 countries have now ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was first signed at the Rio “Earth Summit” in May 1992 (United Nations, 1992). Countries signing the Convention (referred to as “Parties to the Convention”) are required to communicate a national inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and describe the steps and measures to mitigate or adapt to a changing climate (U.S. Dept. of State, 1994). In December 1997, the Third Conference of the Parties (COP III) to the Convention was held in Kyoto, Japan, where participating countries agreed to a new protocol (Bolin, 1998).

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Dixon, R.K., Smith, J.B. (2000). Response and Feedbacks of Forest Systems to Global Change. In: Singh, S.N. (eds) Trace Gas Emissions and Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3571-1_6

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