Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production
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1 School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Luang, Thailand, 2 Centre for Conservation Science and Technology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 3 Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan, 4 Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA, 5 U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA, USA, 6 Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 7 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohama, Japan, 9 Faculty of Career Development, Kyoto Koka Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan, 10 School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 11 Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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