Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1011-1018

  Veldman, Joseph W ^a   Overbeck, Gerhard E ^b   Negreiros, Daniel ^c   Mahy, Gregory ^e   Le Stradic, Soizig ^e   Fernandes, G Wilson ^c,d   Durigan, Giselda ^f   Buisson, Elise ^g   Putz, Francis E ^h   Bond, William J ⁱ  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^f Instituto Florestal   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

afforestation; carbon sequestration; climate change; old growth grasslands; REDD+

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959351036     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv118     Document Type: Review

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