Carbon stock corridors to mitigate climate change and promote biodiversity in the tropics

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 138-142

  Jantz, Patrick ^a   Goetz, Scott ^a   Laporte, Nadine ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; LAND USE CHANGE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; UNITED NATIONS;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84896807267     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2105     Document Type: Article

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