Predicting pan-tropical climate change induced forest stock gains and losses - Implications for REDD

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Gumpenberger, Marlies ^a   Vohland, Katrin ^a,c   Heyder, Ursula ^a   Poulter, Benjamin ^a,d   MacEy, Kirsten ^b   Rammig, Anja ^a   Popp, Alexander ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Climate Analytics   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate change; Climate policy; Modelling; REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation); Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODELS; TROPICS;

CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE POLICY; FOREST DEGRADATION; REFERENCE EMISSIONS LEVELS; TROPICAL FOREST; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77950651272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014013     Document Type: Article

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