Community assessment of tropical tree biomass: Challenges and opportunities for REDD+

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Theilade, Ida ^a   Rutishauser, Ervan ^b   Poulsen, Michael K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CarboForExpert (carboforexpertch)   (Switzerland)

^c Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community monitoring; Indonesia; MRV; REDD+; Species identification; Tree biomass; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLOMETRY; BIOMONITORING; CARBON BUDGET; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; PRECISION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; WOOD QUALITY;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84937469549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-015-0028-3     Document Type: Article

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