High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa's wet savannahs to cropland

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 481-486

  Searchinger, Timothy D ^a   Estes, Lyndon ^a   Thornton, Philip K ^b   Beringer, Tim ^c,d   Notenbaert, An ^e   Rubenstein, Daniel ^a   Heimlich, Ralph ^f   Licker, Rachel ^a   Herrero, Mario ^g  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Agriculture and Food Security   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^f Agricultural Conservation Economics   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGY; CARBON EMISSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ETHANOL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MAIZE; SAVANNA; SHRUBLAND; SOYBEAN; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA;

AVES; GLYCINE MAX; MAMMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928536083     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2584     Document Type: Article

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