Approaches to classifying and restoring degraded tropical forests for the anticipated REDD+ climate change mitigation mechanism

IForest

Volumn 4, Issue JANUARY, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Sasaki, N ^a,b   Asner, G P ^c   Knorr, W ^d   Durst, P B ^e   Priyadi, H R ^f,g   Putz, F E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Thailand)

^f CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted natural regeneration; Biodiversity; Climate change agreement; Forest restoration; REDD plus; Reduced impact logging, Silviculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861719587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0556-004     Document Type: Article

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