The role of natural regeneration to ecosystem services provision and habitat availability: a case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Biotropica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 890-899

  Strassburg, Bernardo B N ^a,b,g   Barros, Felipe S M ^a,b   Crouzeilles, Renato ^a,b   Iribarrem, Alvaro ^a,b,c   Santos, Juliana Silveira dos ^a,b   Silva, Daniel ^a,b   Sansevero, Jerônimo B B ^d   Alves Pinto, Helena N ^a,b,g   Feltran Barbieri, Rafael ^b   Latawiec, Agnieszka E ^a,b,e,f  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

climate change mitigation; connectivity; cost effectiveness; ecological restoration; environment services evaluation; incentives

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONNECTIVITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INCENTIVE; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGENERATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84995977170     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12393     Document Type: Article

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