Secondary forests and monoculture plantations are widespread in the tropics and are the
two most common forms of reforestation. To assess the value of both systems for CO2 …

Tropical forestry is often not competitive with agricultural land uses such as pasture for cattle
ranching. Additional revenues from carbon sequestration generated by the Clean …

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and
sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground  …

We studied the changes in soil carbon contents when pastures are converted to either
secondary forest or plantation forest in north‐western Ecuador. At 40 sites within the region …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) content supports several ecosystem services. Quantifying SOC
requires:(i) accurate C estimates of forest components, and (ii) soil estimates. However, SOC …

The Clean Development Mechanism includes afforestation projects as possible instruments
to reduce global atmospheric CO2. These projects have also the potential to combat …

Laurel (Cordia alliodora Ruiz & Pav. Oken) is a Neotropical native tree that is easily
regenerated in the secondary forest within the Amazon region. Amazonian smallholders use …

Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to
mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above …

Resumen DOLL, Ursula; VALLEJOS, Oscar; BILBAO, Natalia y JARA, Carolina. Estimación
preliminar de la retención de carbono en raíces finas y mantillo de un renoval de …

After the inclusion of carbon sinks in the Kyoto Protocol, greenhouse gas mitigation policies
account for abatement measurements in both the energy and forestry sectors. This report …