Beyond hectares: four principles to guide reforestation in the context of tropical forest and landscape restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 491-496

  Brancalion, Pedro H S ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

carbon stock assessment; forest biomass; forest governance; forest regeneration; restoration accountability; tropical reforestation

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 85019941502     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12519     Document Type: Article

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