Jacob Phelps

TL;DR: A major new approach to emissions mitigation may interrupt a promising trend toward decentralized forest management, and the implications for tropical forest management should be a research priority.

TL;DR: It is shown how the equity impacts of PES can create positive and negative feedbacks that influence ecological outcomes, and cautioned against equity-blind PES, which overlooks these relationships as a result of a primary and narrow focus on economic efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple, inexpensive and low-technology device called the "rod surface elevation table" could be used to monitor threatened coastal wetlands around the world, which is used to predict the probable impact of sea-level rise on vulnerable coastal ecosystems and for science-informed management, adaptation and mitigation.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis of over 250 studies reporting above- and below-ground carbon estimates for different land-use types indicates great uncertainty in the net total ecosystem carbon changes that can be expected from many transitions, including the replacement of various types of swidden agriculture with oil palm, rubber, or some other types of agroforestry systems.

TL;DR: The first overview of commercial orchid trade globally is provided and the main types that involve wild-collected plants are highlighted, including the associated legal–regulatory context and key conservation challenges.