Ecosystem accounts define explicit and spatial trade-offs for managing natural resources

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1683-1692

  Keith, Heather ^a   Vardon, Michael ^a   Stein, John A ^a   Stein, Janet L ^a   Lindenmayer, David ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; VICTORIA;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; VICTORIA;

EID: 85031811499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0309-1     Document Type: Article

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