Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 10821-10826

  Soares Filho, Britaldo ^a   Moutinho, Paulo ^b,c   Nepstad, Daniel ^b,c   Anderson, Anthony ^d   Rodrigues, Hermann ^a   Garcia, Ricardo ^a   Dietzsch, Laura ^b   Merry, Frank ^e   Bowman, Maria ^c   Hissa, Letícia ^a   Silvestrini, Rafaella ^a   Maretti, Cláudio ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d World Wildlife Fund Brazil   (Brazil)

^e GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Region Protected Areas; Effectiveness; Opportunity cost; Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER);

EID: 77954636356     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913048107     Document Type: Article

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