Quantifying carbon and amphibian co-benefits from secondary forest regeneration in the Tropical Andes

Animal Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 548-560

  Basham, E W ^a   Gonzalez del Pliego P ^a   Acosta Galvis, A R ^b   Woodcock, P ^c,d   Medina Uribe, C A ^b   Haugaasen, T ^c   Gilroy, J J ^c,e   Edwards, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anurans; carbon stocks; Colombian Andes; land abandonment; montane cloud forest; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; secondary forest regrowth

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON EMISSION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; REGENERATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANDES; COLOMBIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84966948819     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12276     Document Type: Article

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