ECOSYSTEM CARBON STORAGE OF TROPICAL FORESTS OVER LIMESTONE IN XISHUANGBANNA, SW CHINA

1Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla County, Yunnan 666303, China 2Department of Life Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China 3Department of Policy Analysis, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Roskilde, Denmark 4State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China

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