Estimating state-wide biomass carbon stocks for a REDD plan in Acre, Brazil

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 555-560

  Salimon, Cleber I ^a   Putz, Francis E ^b   Menezes Filho, L ^c   Anderson, Anthony ^d   Silveira, Marcos ^a   Brown, I Foster ^e   Oliveira, L C ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Independent Consultant   (Brazil)

^d WWF Brasil   (Brazil)

^e WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f EMBRAPA ACRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Carbon map; Climate change; Land cover; Palm and bamboo forests; REDD

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CARBON STOCKS; FIELD DATA; FOREST TYPE; FORESTED AREA; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED DATA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; OPEN CANOPIES; PALM AND BAMBOO FORESTS; PRIVATE LAND; REDD; SIMPLE METHOD; STATE GOVERNMENTS; TOTAL BIOMASS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BAMBOO; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BAMBOO; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; LAND COVER; REMOTE SENSING; STATE ROLE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ACRE [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 79958022681     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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