Consequences of environmental service payments for forest retention and recruitment in a Costa Rican biological corridor

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Morse, Wayde C ^a,b   Schedlbauer, Jessica L ^a,b   Sesnie, Steven E ^a,b   Finegan, Bryan ^a   Harvey, Celia A ^a,c   Hollenhorst, Steven J ^b   Kavanagh, Kathleen L ^b   Stoian, Dietmar ^a   Wulfhorst, J D ^b  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological corridor; Carbon storage; Costa Rica; Environmental service payments; Forest change; Landowner decision making; Sarapiqu ; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDOWNER; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 69149105258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02688-140123     Document Type: Article

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