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Climate change impacts on tropical forests in Central America : an ecosystem service perspective / edited by Aline Chiabai

Introduction / Aline Chiabai -- Part I. Central American tropical forests, ecosystem services and human wellbeing -- An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America / Lenin Corrales, ...
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Managing forests and other ecosystems under rising threats requires thinking across wide-ranging scenarios

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes. Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS In Sequoia and ...
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In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

The sale of carbon credits from forest restoration is taking off in Brazil, but the sector still needs to tackle mistrust, the complexity of ecosystem restoration and the long-term nature of the ...
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Don't write off logged tropical forests -- converting to oil palm plantations has even wider effects on ecosystems

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...
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Managing forests and other ecosystems under rising threats requires thinking across wide‑ranging scenarios

Kyra Clark-Wolf receives funding from USGS, NSF, and National Park Service. She is affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado ...