Enabling large-scale forest restoration in Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Nunes, Felipe S M ^a   Soares Filho, Britaldo S ^b   Rajão, Raoni ^b   Merry, Frank ^c  

^a Fundação Estadual de Meio Ambiente de Minas Gerais FEAM   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Laboratório de Gestão de Serviços Ambientais LAGESA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

assisted natural regeneration; Brazil's Forest Code; Dinamica EGO; passive restoration; spatial optimization model

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EMISSION CONTROL; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SITE SELECTION;

DINAMICA EGO; FOREST CODE; NATURAL REGENERATION; PASSIVE RESTORATIONS; SPATIAL OPTIMIZATION MODEL;

CONSERVATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COST ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; REGENERATION;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 85018515673     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6658     Document Type: Article

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