Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1703, 2016, Pages

  Estes, L D ^a,b   Searchinger, T ^b   Spiegel, M ^a   Tian, D ^a   Sichinga, S ^d   Mwale, M ^d   Kehoe, L ^e   Kuemmerle, T ^e,f   Berven, A ^a   Chaney, N ^c   Sheffield, J ^a   Wood, E F ^a   Caylor, K K ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Zambia Agricultural Research Institute   (Zambia)

^e Geography Department   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity; Carbon; Optimization; Savannahs; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE PLANNING; MAIZE; OPTIMIZATION; SOYBEAN; TRADE-OFF; WOODLAND;

GEORGIA; SAVANNAH; UNITED STATES; ZAMBIA;

ZEA MAYS;

CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GRASSLAND; ZAMBIA;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; GRASSLAND; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84982943030     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0316     Document Type: Article

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