Validating community-led forest biomass assessments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Venter, Michelle ^a   Venter, Oscar ^a,b   Edwards, Will ^a   Bird, Michael I ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SCIENTIST; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84937980805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130529     Document Type: Article

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