A crisis in the making: Responses of Amazonian forests to land use and climate change

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 411-415

  Laurance, William F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE;

BRAZIL; CLIMATE; FOREST; LAND USE; MINING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; WILDLIFE;

AMAZON; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031661080     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01433-5     Document Type: Article

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