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Title: The North American carbon budget past and present

Author: Pacala, Stephen; Birdsey, Richard A.; Bridgham, Scott D.; Conant, Richard T.; Davis, Kenneth; Hales, Burke; Houghton, Richard A.; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Johnston, Mark; Marland, Gregg; Paustian, Keith; Caspersen, John; Socolow, Robert; Tol, Richard S.

Date: 2007

Source: In: King, A.W.; Dilling, L.; Zimmerman, G.P.; Fairman, D.M.; Houghton, R.A.; Marland, G.; Rose, A.Z.; Wilbanks, T.J., eds. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC: 29-36, 167-170.

Description: A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.

Keywords: Climate Change Science Program, CCSP, Global Change Research Program, USGCRP, North American, North America, carbon budget, carbon cycle, carbon, global, CO2, fossil, fuels, energy, industry, transportation, extraction, conversion, synthesis, assessment, buildings, land, water, forests, permafrost, wewetlands, settlements, ocean, ecosystem, Canada, United States, U.S., Mexico, atmosphere, flux, sequestration

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Pacala, Stephen; Birdsey, Richard A.; Bridgham, Scott D.; Conant, Richard T.; Davis, Kenneth; Hales, Burke; Houghton, Richard A.; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Johnston, Mark; Marland, Gregg; Paustian, Keith; Caspersen, John; Socolow, Robert; Tol, Richard S.  2007.  The North American carbon budget past and present.   In: King, A.W.; Dilling, L.; Zimmerman, G.P.; Fairman, D.M.; Houghton, R.A.; Marland, G.; Rose, A.Z.; Wilbanks, T.J., eds. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC: 29-36, 167-170..