Global priorities for conservation of threatened species, carbon storage, and freshwater services: Scope for synergy?

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 355-363

  Larsen, Frank W ^a,b   Londoño Murcia, Maria C ^a,c   Turner, Will R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon storage; Freshwater; REDD+; Synergy; Threatened species; Tradeoff analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053540983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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