Assessing regulating and provisioning ecosystem services in a contrasting tropical forest landscape

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 319-334

  Alamgir, Mohammed ^a,b   Turton, Stephen M ^a   Macgregor, Colin J ^a   Pert, Petina L ^a,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental gradient; Global climate regulation; Rehabilitated plantation forest; Sclerophyll forest

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICS;

AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GLOBAL CLIMATES; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION FORESTS; SCLEROPHYLL FORESTS; TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AIR QUALITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EROSION CONTROL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION TYPE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84955603644     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.016     Document Type: Article

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