Conservation policy and the measurement of forests

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 192-196

  Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Noojipady, Praveen ^a,b,c   Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Song, Dan Xia ^a   Kim, Do Hyung ^a   Anand, Anupam ^a,d   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Pimm, Stuart L ^e   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b National Wildlife Federation   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PHYTOMASS; SATELLITE DATA; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84955617371     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2816     Document Type: Article

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