Protected areas' role in climate-change mitigation

Protected areas' role in climate-change mitigation

Globally, 15.5 million km2 of land are currently identified as protected areas, which provide society with many ecosystem services including climate-change mitigation. Combining a global database of protected areas, a reconstruction of global land-use history, and a global biogeochemistry model, we...

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Main Authors: Melillo, Jerry M. (Author), Lu, Xiaoliang (Author), Kicklighter, David W. (Author), Reilly, John M. (Contributor), Cai, Yongxia (Author), Sokolov, Andrei P. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2016-06-23T16:42:04Z.
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