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., Lu, Xiaoliang, Kicklighter, David W., Reilly, John M., Cai, Yongxia, Sokolov, Andrei P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103295
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-0968