Maximizing the environmental benefits of carbon farming through ecosystem service delivery

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 793-803

  Lin, Brenda B ^a   Macfadyen, Sarina ^a   Renwick, Anna R ^b   Cunningham, Saul A ^a   Schellhorn, Nancy A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cobenefits; Disbenefits; Land use change; Revegetation; Tree planting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886716053     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.10.6     Document Type: Review

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