Identifying areas of deforestation risk for REDD+ using a species modeling tool

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Aguilar Amuchastegui, Naikoa ^a   Riveros, Juan Carlos ^b   Forrest, Jessica L ^c  

^a WWF US   (United States)

^b WWF Peru ^*  (Peru)

^c World Wildlife Fund United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Carbon; Conservation; Forest; MAXENT; Species habitat modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST COVER; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MITIGATION; PRIORITIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

MADRE DE DIOS; PERU;

EID: 84919674276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-014-0010-5     Document Type: Article

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