Land-use trends in Endemic Bird Areas: Global expansion of agriculture in areas of high conservation value

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2046-2051

  Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^a,b   Green, Rhys E ^a,b   Balmford, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Conservation; Endemic bird areas; Land use change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; ENDEMISM; LAND USE CHANGE;

AVES;

EID: 10944228401     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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