目录:Editorials
On the road to REDD p11
An emissions trading scheme gives forests a market value on the basis of how much carbon they sequester. It could help to control global warming — if developing nations meet their responsibilities.
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Top of pageJournal Club
Journal club p15
Jan Zaanen
doi:10.1038/462015f
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Top of pageNews
News briefing: 5 November 2009 p16
The week in science
Science favoured by German coalition p24
Budgets set to double as new government backs previous spending commitments.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/462024a
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Column
In which we say goodbye p25
Our departing columnist David Goldston reflects on some misconceptions about science and politics.
David Goldston
doi:10.1038/462025a
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Top of pageNews Features
Carbon trading: How to save a forest p26
Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.
Conservation biology: Reflecting the past p30
Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.
doi:10.1038/462030a
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Top of pageCorrespondence
Sharing: lessons from natural history's success story p34
Robert Guralnick, Heather Constable, John Wieczorek, Craig Moritz & A. Townsend Peterson
Research into group differences isn't wrong, just pointless p35
Steven Rose
doi:10.1038/462035c
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Top of pageOpinion
Global Darwin: Contempt for competition p36
Darwin's idea of the 'struggle for existence' struck a chord with his fellow countrymen. But Russians rejected the alien metaphor, says Daniel Todes, in the second of four weekly pieces on reactions to evolutionary theory.
Daniel Todes
doi:10.1038/462036a
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Top of pageBooks and Arts
Amphibian mystery misread p38
A book blaming a fungus for the disappearance of amphibians from wild places wrongly downplays the role of environmental change, warn Alan Pounds and Karen Masters.