Assessing relatedness and redundancy of forest monitoring and change indicators

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-113

  Nagendra, Harini ^a,b  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon storage; Community forests; Density; REDD; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CARBON STORAGE; COMMUNITY FOREST; DENSITY; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FOREST MONITORING; FOREST STRUCTURE; REDD; SHRUB DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATEDNESS; SAPLING; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST STRUCTURE; INDIA; KENYA; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT PARAMETERS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SAPLING; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; UGANDA; UNITED STATES;

EAST AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81055139464     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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