Sentences with phrase «estimate by rainforest»

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The aforementioned paper reports that «Rainforest Alliance inspection auditors rely heavily on data provided by farm managers» (who are not ecologists), and confirm data provided during visits by various estimates and extrapolations.

By some estimates these habitats and their so - called blue carbon stocks — in the soil and the plants themselves — store up to five times more carbon than tropical rainforests the same size.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

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