Protected areas’ role in climate-change mitigation

Ambio

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 133-145

  Melillo, Jerry M ^a   Lu, Xiaoliang ^a   Kicklighter, David W ^a   Reilly, John M ^b   Cai, Yongxia ^c   Sokolov, Andrei P ^b  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Global carbon cycle; Mitigation; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND USE PLANNING; MITIGATION; PROTECTED AREA;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84958103196     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: 16547209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-015-0693-1     Document Type: Article

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