Biodiversity and ecosystem services: Lessons from nature to improve management of planted forests for REDD-plus

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2613-2635

  Thompson, Ian D ^a   Okabe, Kimiko ^b   Parrotta, John A ^c   Brockerhoff, Eckehard ^d   Jactel, Hervé ^e,f   Forrester, David I ^g   Taki, Hisatomo ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Adidas Wearable Sports Electronics   (United States)

^d SCION   (New Zealand)

^e UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Forest management; Plantation; Planted forest; REDD plus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905232885     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0736-0     Document Type: Review

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