Kenya is facing immense land use and climate changes which brings about negative impacts on natural resources. The large scale-loss…
Authors: Kroese, J.S.
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CarboScen: a tool to estimate carbon implications of land-use scenarios
Publication Year : 2017
Land use directly impacts ecosystem carbon and indirectly influences atmospheric carbon. Computing ecosystem carbon for an area experiencing changes in…
Authors: Larjavaara, M.; Kanninen, M.; Alam, S.A.; Mäkinen, A.; Poeplau, C.
Trends in forest conditions and implications for resilience to climate change under differing forest governance regimes: the case of Mount Elgon, East Africa
Publication Year : 2017
Mount Elgon is a transboundary East African montane ecosystem that harbors unique biological diversity and provides critical goods and services…
Authors: Russell, A.; Waiswa, D.; Owuor, B.; Ongugo, P.; Bomuhangi, A.; Banana, A.Y.; Kimondo, J.M.
Characteristic trajectories of ecosystem services in mountains
Publication Year : 2017
Intensification of land use and management over recent decades has resulted in trade-offs between food or timber production and other…
Authors: Locatelli, B.; Lavorel, S.; Sloan, S.; Tappeiner, U.; Geneletti, D.
Above ground biomass estimation in palm trees using Terrestrial LiDAR and tree modelling
Publication Year : 2017
Above ground biomass (AGB) is an indicator in tropical forests that helps to determine the quantity of carbon stored in…
Authors: Caballero Rodri´guez, A.C.
An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor
Publication Year : 2017
Wetlands are important providers of ecosystem services and key regulators of climate change. They positively contribute to global warming through…
Authors: Gumbricht, T.; Román-Cuesta, R.M.; Verchot, L.V.; Herold, M.; Wittmann, F.; Householder, E.; Herold, N.; Murdiyarso, D.
Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities
Publication Year : 2017
Large scale land acquisitions (LSLA), and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) are both land based phenomena which…
Authors: Carter, S.; Manceur, A.M.; Seppelt, R.; Hermans-Neumann, K.; Herold, M.; Verchot, L.V.
Estimating smallholder opportunity costs of REDD+: A pantropical analysis from households to carbon and back
Publication Year : 2017
Compensating forest users for the opportunity costs of foregoing deforestation and degradation was one of the original distinguishing features of…
Authors: Ickowitz, A.; Sills, E.O.; de Sassi, C.
The impact of forest management plans on trees and carbon: Modeling a decade of harvesting data in Cameroon
Publication Year : 2017
By 2010, about 25% (180 million ha) of The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) producer countries’ permanent forest estate was…
Authors: Cerutti, P.O.; Suryadarma, D.; Nasi, R.; Forni, E.; Medjibe, V.P.; Delion, S.; Bastin, D.
Effect of species grouping and site variables on aboveground biomass models for lowland tropical forests of the Indo-Malay region
Publication Year : 2017
Key message This study assessed the effect of ecological variables on tree allometry and provides more accurate aboveground biomass (AGB)…
Authors: Manuri, S.; Brack, C.; Rusolono, T.; Noor'an, F.; Verchot, L.V.; Maulana, S.I.; Adinugroho, W.C.; Kurniawan, H.; Sukisno, D.W.; Kusuma, G.A.; Budiman, A.; Anggono, R.S.; Siregar, C.A.; Onrizal, O.; Yuniati, D.; Soraya, E.