Tropical second-growth forests could help mitigate climate change, but the degree to which their carbon potential is achieved will...
Authors: Schwartz, N.;Uriarte, M.;DeFries, R.;Bedka, K.M.;Fernandes, K.;Gutiérrez-Vélez,V.;Pinedo-Vasquez, M.
Articles
Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data
Publication Year : 2017
Understandably, given the fast pace of biodiversity loss, there is much interest in using Earth observation technology to track bi...
Authors: Bush, A.;Sollmann, R.;Wilting, A.;Bohmann, K.;Cole, B.;Balzter, H.;Martius, C.;Zlinszky, A.;Calvignac-Spencer, S.;Cobbold, C.A.;Dawson, T.P.;Emerson, B.C.;Ferrirer, S.;Gilbert, M.T.P.;Herold, M.;Jones, L.;Leendertz, F.H.;Matthews, L.;Millington, J.D.A.;Olson, J.R.;Ovaskainen, O.;Raffaelli, D.;Reeve, R.;Rödel, M-O.;Rodgers, T.W.;Snape, S.;Visseren-Hamakers, I.;Vogler, A.P.;White, P.C.L.;Wooster, M.J.;Yu, D.W.
Biochar research activities and their relation to development and environmental quality. A meta-analysis
Publication Year : 2017
Biochar is the solid product that results from pyrolysis of organic materials. Its addition to highly weathered soils changes phys...
Authors: Mehmood, K.;Chávez Garcia, E.;Schirrmann, M.;Ladd, B.;Kammann, C.;Wrage-Mönnig, N.;Siebe, C.;Estavillo, J.M.;Fuertes-Mendizabal, T.;Cayuela, M.;Sigua, G.;Spokas, K.;Cowie, A.L.;Novak, J.;Ippolito, J.A.;Borchard, N.
Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden - knowns, unknowns and future research needs
Publication Year : 2017
Agriculture and land use change has significantly increased atmospheric emissions of the non-CO2 green-house gases (GHG) nitrous o...
Authors: Kammann, C.;Ippolito, J.A.;Hagemann, N,;Borchard, N.;Cayuela, M.;Estavillo, J.M.;Fuertes-Mendizabal, T.;Jeffery, S.;Kern, J.;Novak, J.;Rasse, D.;Saarnio, S.;Schmidt, H-P.;Spokas, K.;Wrage-Mönnig, N.
Modelling the Covariance Structure in Marginal Multivariate Count Models: Hunting in Bioko Island
Publication Year : 2017
The main goal of this article is to present a flexible statistical modelling framework to deal with multivariate count data along ...
Authors: Bonat, W.H.;Olivero, J.;Grande-Vega, M.;Farfán, M.A.;Fa, J.E.
Planes actuales de restauración ecológica en Latinoamérica: Avances y omisiones
Publication Year : 2017
En este estudio se buscaron los países que cuentan con un plan de restauración en Latinoamérica para, posteriormente, analizar ...
Authors: Méndez-Toribio, M.;Martínez-Garza, C.;Cecconc, E.;Guariguata, M.R.
Land use affects total dissolved nitrogen and nitrate concentrations in tropical montane streams in Kenya
Publication Year : 2017
African tropical montane forests are facing fast and dynamic changes in land use. However, the impacts of these changes on stream ...
Authors: Jacobs, S.R.;Breuer, L.;Butterbach-Bahl, K.;Pelster, D.E.;Rufino, M.C.
Renegotiating Access to Shea Trees in Burkina Faso: Challenging Power Relationships Associated with Demographic Shifts and Globalized Trade
Publication Year : 2017
This paper uses an original integrated theoretical framework to reveal the mechanisms behind socio-economic differentiation in the...
Authors: Rousseau, K.;Gautier, D.;Wardell, D.A.
A case study on inclusiveness in forest management decision-making mechanisms: a comparison of certified and non-certified forests in the Republic of the Congo
Publication Year : 2017
In recent years inclusiveness has been promoted as an integral element of forest management and certification. Under Forest Stewar...
Authors: Guillaume, E.
Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia
Publication Year : 2017
Tree species in tropical forests provide economically important goods and ecosystem services. In submontane forests of southwester...
Authors: Selaya, G.;Zuidema, P.A.;Baraloto, C.;Vos, V.A.;Brienen, R.J.W.;Pitman, N.;Brown, F.;Duchelle, A.E.;Araujo-Murakami, A.;Oliveira Carillo, L.A.;Vasquez Colomo, G.H.;Chupinagua, S.M.;Fuentes Nay, H.;Perz, S.