Improved regional monitoring and reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions depends on accurate estimates of emissions from different land-use regimes. An analysis suggests that measuring emissions per crop yield may be an optimum metric for refining land-management decisions.
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West, T. Monitoring informs management. Nature Clim Change 1, 399–400 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1268
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