Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 211-218

  Latawiec, Agnieszka E ^a,b,c,d   Strassburg, Bernardo B N ^a,d   Brancalion, Pedro H S ^e   Rodrigues, Ricardo R ^e   Gardner, Toby ^a,f  

^a International Institute for Sustainability   (Brazil)

^b OPOLE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f Addiction Centre Stockholm   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPLOITATION; INCOME; PRODUCTIVITY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIMBER;

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EID: 84928940773     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140052     Document Type: Article

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