Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD+
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Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD+
BACKGROUND Human-caused disturbance to tropical rainforests-such as logging and fire-causes substantial losses of carbon stocks. This is a critical issue to be addressed in the context of policy discussions to implement REDD+. This work reviews current scientific knowledge about the temporal dynamics of degradation-induced carbon emissions to describe common patterns of emissions from logging a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Carbon Balance and Management
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1750-0680
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-017-0074-0