Ecosystem services capacity across heterogeneous forest types: understanding the interactions and suggesting pathways for sustaining multiple ecosystem services

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 566-567, Issue , 2016, Pages 584-595

  Alamgir, Mohammed ^a,b   Turton, Stephen M ^a   Macgregor, Colin J ^a   Pert, Petina L ^a,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global climate regulation; Habitat provision; Pattern; Synergies

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORESTRY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NUTRIENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; STORMS; TROPICS;

AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HABITAT PROVISION; MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS; PATTERN; SYNERGIES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HABITAT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RAINFOREST; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY REGULATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CYCLONE PROTECTION; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENERGY PROVISION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EROSION REGULATION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE REGULATION; HABITAT PROVISION; LANDSCAPE; NUTRIENT REGULATION; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIMBER PROVISION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84978435767     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.107     Document Type: Article

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