Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobenefits under REDD+?
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Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD+
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1354-1013
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12937