全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1038/nclimate1375
	Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions.
	Strassburg BBN; Rodrigues ASL; Gusti M; Balmford A; Fritz S; Obersteiner M; Turner RK; Brooks TM
发表日期	2012
出处	Nature Climate Change 2 (5): 350-355
出版年	2012
语种	英语
摘要	Deforestation is a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and the greatest single driver of species extinctions. The reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has been formally recognized as a climate change mitigation option. REDD might have important co-benefits for biodiversity conservation yet the extent of these benefits will depend on as-yet untested associations between fine-scale spatial patterns of deforestation, species distributions and carbon stocks. Here we combine a global land-use model and spatial data on species distributions to explore scenarios of future deforestation within REDD-eligible countries, to quantify and map the potential impacts on species extinctions as increased by forest loss and decreased by carbon conservation. We found that the continuation of historical deforestation rates is likely to result in large numbers of species extinctions, but that an adequately funded REDD programme could substantially reduce these losses. Under our deforestation scenarios, the projected benefits of REDD were remarkably consistent across the four methods used to estimate extinctions, but spatially variable, and highly dependent on the level of carbon payments. Our results indicate that, if well designed, adequately funded and broadly implemented, carbon-based forest conservation could play a major role in biodiversity conservation as well as climate change mitigation.
主题	Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10019/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/129434
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Strassburg BBN,Rodrigues ASL,Gusti M,et al. Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions.. 2012.