Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobenefits under REDD+?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3455-3468

  Magnago, Luiz Fernando S ^a,b   Magrach, Ainhoa ^b   Laurance, William F ^b   Martins, Sebastião V ^a   Meira Neto, João Augusto A ^a   Simonelli, Marcelo ^c   Edwards, David P ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO FEDERAL DO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity value; Biomass; Ecosystems services; Forest management; Fragment isolation; REDD+; Safeguards; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOME; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RED LIST; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RAIN FOREST; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84942294922     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12937     Document Type: Article

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