Biodiversity conservation implications of landscape change in an urbanizing desert of Southwestern Peru

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 313-334

  Polk, Mary H ^a   Young, Kenneth R ^a   Crews Meyer, Kelley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid environments; Biodiversity conservation; Change detection; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144523198     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-005-4864-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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