Patterns and causes of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 353-368

  Armenteras, Dolors ^a,b   Rudas, Guillermo ^c   Rodriguez, Nelly ^a   Sua, Sonia ^a   Romero, Milton ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biodiversity; Colombia; Fragmentation; Indicators; Land use change; Satellite imagery; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

COLONIZATION; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION;

BIOINDICATOR; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

AMAZONIA; COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33644855503     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.03.014     Document Type: Article

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