Mega-development trends in the Amazon: Implications for global change

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-122

  Laurance, William F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Biodiversity Support Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Carbon sink; Climate change; Climatic variability; Deforestation; Forest conservation; Habitat fragmentation; Logging; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIAN FORESTS; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; TROPICAL FORESTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE HAZARDS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND USE;

BRAZIL;

CAESALPINIA CILIATA; RONDONIA;

EID: 0034059351     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006374320085     Document Type: Article

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