Importance of Defining 'Forest': Tropical Forest Degradation, Deforestation, Long-term Phase Shifts, and Further Transitions

While research continues on the causes, consequences, and rates of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics, there is little agreement about what exactly is being lost, what we want back, and to whom the 'we' refers. Particularly unsettling is that many analyses and well-intende...

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Published in:	Biotropica Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 10 - 20
Main Authors:	Putz, Francis E, Redford, Kent H
Format:	Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, USA Malden, USA : Blackwell Publishing Inc 2010 Blackwell Publishing Inc Wiley
Subjects:	Afforestation Animal, plant and microbial ecology Applied ecology biodiversity Biological and medical sciences biomass canopy carbon carbon markets carbon sequestration carbon sinks climate change Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife deforestation ecosystems Forestry Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects General forest ecology Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology guidelines land cover land-use change nontimber forest products plantation plantations planting REDD remote sensing savanna savannas scrub shrublands species diversity trees tropical forests tropics understory Japan, Honshu, Kyoto Prefect., Kyoto Deforestation Savannah Tropical zone land-use change Tropical forest Biodiversity scrub Long term Carbon sequestration Land use Breeding site Dynamical climatology Degradation Climate change REDD plantation savanna Transition Shrubbery
ISSN:	0006-3606, 1744-7429
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