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A call to develop carbon credits for second-growth forests

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Fig. 1: Effect of carbon finance on the temporal sequence of land use and aboveground biomass.

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  1. Department of Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

    Pedro H. S. Brancalion

  2. Re.green, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ricardo R. Rodrigues & Bernardo B. N. Strassburg

  3. Department of Zoology and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Andrew Balmford & Tom Swinfield

  4. Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Charlotte E. Wheeler

  5. Department of Biological Sciences, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

    Ricardo R. Rodrigues

  6. Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg

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P.H.S.B., R.R.R. and B.B.N.S. are partners at Re.green, a restoration company. A.B., C.E.W. and T.S. are members of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits.

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Brancalion, P.H.S., Balmford, A., Wheeler, C.E. et al. A call to develop carbon credits for second-growth forests. Nat Ecol Evol 8, 179–180 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02288-2

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