Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 350-355

  Strassburg, Bernardo B N ^a,b   Rodrigues, Ana S L ^c   Gusti, Mykola ^d,e   Balmford, Andrew ^f   Fritz, Steffen ^d   Obersteiner, Michael ^d   Kerry Turner, R ^b   Brooks, Thomas M ^g,h,i  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^e LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g NATURESERVE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXTINCTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; INCENTIVE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84860266545     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1375     Document Type: Review

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