REDDcalculator.com: A web-based decision-support tool for implementing Indonesia's forest moratorium

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 310-316

  Koh, Lian Pin ^a,b   Gibbs, Holly K ^c   Potapov, Peter V ^d   Hansen, Matthew C ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Climate change; GIS; Logging; Oil palm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864811890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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