 External Reports
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IBISCA Queensland, Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, April 2008
Second progress report on predicting and assessing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. |
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Erin C. Myers, Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 07-50, December 2007 |
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Do Trees Grow on Money?, CIFOR, December 2007
The implications of deforestation research for policies to promote REDD |
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Carving up the Congo, Greenpeace, April 2007
This report uncovers endemic corruption and impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo's logging sector at a time when key decision that will determine the future of the Rainforests are about to be made by the World Bank.
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Clouds on the Horizon, The Rainforest Foundation, February 2007
This report warns that damage to and destruction of Congo's rainforests could cause significant increases in emissions of carbon to the atmosphere. |
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A New Inititative to Use Carbon Trading for Tropical Forest Conservation, William F Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, January 2007
Describes a new initiative, led by a coalition of developing nations, to devise a viable mechanism for using carbon trading to protect old-growth tropical forests. The report highlights some of the practical and political hurdles involved in forest-carbon trading, and explains why this inititative is rapidly gaining broad-based political support.
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Sky-High Experiments, Science, August 2005
Using construction cranes to reach above towering treetops, scientists are achieving a better overview of forest ecology and how trees contribute to global climate change. (Copyright Journal SCIENCE)
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Biodiversity meets the Atmosphere: A Global View of Forest Canopies, Science, July 2003
The forest canopy is the functional interface between 90% of Earth's terrestrial biomass and the atmosphere. Multidisciplinary research in the canopy has expanded concepts of global species richness, physiological processes, and the provision of ecosystem services. Trees respond in a species-specific manner to elevated carbon dioxide levels, while climate change threatens plant-animal interactions in the canopy and will likely alter the production of biogenic aerosols that affect cloud formation and atmospheric chemistry. |
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