Costs and Opportunities for Preserving Coastal Wetlands under Sea Level Rise

Conservation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 49-57

  Runting, Rebecca K ^a   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Beyer, Hawthorne L ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon sequestration; climate change adaptation; co benefits; mangroves; Moreton Bay; nursery habitat; opportunity cost; Payments for ecosystem services (PES); SLAMM; spatial conservation planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963570184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12239     Document Type: Letter

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