Deforestation and tropical forests
Impact of deforestation on habitat connectivity thresholds for large carnivores in tropical forests
... of deforestation observed in the study area, it seems unlikely that conservation strategies that aim at increasing core habitat areas and/or maintaining structural connectivity will be effective in similar lowland ...
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Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation
... of tropical forest ecosystems. Protecting tropical forests is a fundamental pillar of many national and international strategies for conserving biodiversity 4 − 6 ...reduced deforestation ...
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Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Tropical Forests: An Examination of the Issues Facing the Incorporation of REDD into Market-Based Climate Policies
... with tropical forests to understand how a one-time reduction in deforestation rates could lead to a greater area of standing forest in any given time period, and thus a permanent re- duction in ...
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Governing deforestation: a governmentality analysis of tropical forests in climate negotiations
... convert deforestation trends to carbon quantities, and other matters that at times were difficult to understand given my background in the social ...and forests affected negotiation ...
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How valuable are the tropical forests? Demonstrating and capturing economic value as a means of addressing the causes of deforestation
... In the same way, deals are beginning to emerge that relate to the local externalities from forest conversion. In Colombia, downstream farmers have established contracts to pay upstream forest owners to conserve the ...
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Effects of taxes and climate policy instruments on harvesting of managed forests and on tropical deforestation
... the forests on the international carbon credit ...the tropical forests as a non-renewable resource, and combines forest amenity valuation into the decision framework with regards to non-renewable ...
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Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation
... as deforestation drivers, especially in Indonesia 24, 29, 30 ...natural forests, the tropical forests of the Congo Basin are still relatively undisturbed, with historical deforestation ...
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Fixing tropical forests
... Batterman Tropical forests recovering from deforestation, degradation and agriculture have the potential to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping countries meet ...
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Tropical moist forests
... inhabit tropical lands and population growth rates are ...the tropical population relies on subsistence ...in deforestation. Increasingly, tropical agriculture is supplying markets in ...
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Threats to tropical forests
... • Deforestation: "permanent removal of forest cover and withdrawal of land from forest use, whether deliberately or circumstantially". (IPCC) = entire loss of patches of forest[r] ...
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A Whole-of-Government Approach to Reducing Tropical Deforestation
... Summary Tropical forests provide critical global and local ecosystem services and habitat for many of the world’s plants and ...illegal deforestation abroad places ...
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TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM BRAZIL
... of deforestation exert pressure for conversion of tropical ...Preventing tropical deforestation is an enormous challenge because the conversion pressure is increasing throughout the developing ...
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Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests
... Therefore, tropical forest turnover data may provide a novel test of the hypothesis that global forest productivity is increasing ( viii ...in tropical forests using logarithmic models to estimate ...
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Impact of deforestation on solid and dissolved organic matter characteristics of tropical peat forests: implications for carbon release
... pristine tropical peat forests in Southeast Asia with a neighbouring peat dome that has been deforested, but not intentionally drained, in the Belait district of Brunei Darussalam, ...
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Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation
... of tropical dry forest in Mexico (Avila-Cabadilla et ...in tropical dry compared to wet ...secondary forests, implying that habitat con- nectivity may be more important than successional stage for ...
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Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation
... to forests, but can provide canopy structure similar to that in ...in forests, differences between the two habitat types were not as severe as indicated by capture-based ...
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Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of Deforestation of Hyrcanian Forests on Local Communities
... future deforestation and total forest loss in the world was predicted with regard to the growing rate of global ...reports, tropical and Sahelian Africa, Central America, Tropical Asia, and ...
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Barriers to Preventing Deforestation and Degradation of Indonesia’s Tropical Rainforests and Peatlands
... address deforestation and degradation of Indonesia’s tropical rainforests and ...Indonesia’s forests and peatlands in global efforts to combat tropical deforestation and to reduce ...
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Forests, Deforestation and Human Health
... Products from trees and forests such as foodstuffs and herbal medicines playa direct role in human health enhancement.. What is generally not appreciated is the role deforestation plays [r] ...
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2 Use, management of forests and deforestation in the past
... About 71% represent coppiced and degraded and 29% tall forests. Historical, social and natural conditions caused gradual deforestation, forest and land degradation. Foundations of artificial afforestation ...
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