Dynamics of carbon and biodiversity under REDD+ regime: A case from Nepal

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 272-281

  Pandey, Shiva Shankar ^a   Cockfield, Geoff ^a   Maraseni, Tek Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon pool; Community forestry; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894259218     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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