Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 98-105

  Strassburg, Bernardo B N ^a,b   Kelly, Annabel ^a   Balmford, Andrew ^c   Davies, Richard G ^a   Gibbs, Holly K ^d   Lovett, Andrew ^a   Miles, Lera ^e   Orme, C David L ^f   Price, Jeff ^g,h   Turner, R Kerry ^a   Rodrigues, Ana S L ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b GAEA Institute for Global and Applied Environmental Analysis   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological conservation; Carbon stocks; CBD; Climate change; Cobenefits; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; REDD; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956397109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2009.00092.x     Document Type: Review

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