Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7083, 2006, Pages 520-523

  Soares Filho, Britaldo Silveira ^a   Nepstad, Daniel Curtis ^b,d,e   Curran, Lisa M ^c   Cerqueira, Gustavo Coutinho ^a   Garcia, Ricardo Alexandrine ^a   Ramos, Claudia Azevedo ^d   Voll, Eliane ^a   McDonald, Alice ^c   Lefebvre, Paul ^b   Schlesinger, Peter ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

AMAZON BASIN; FOREST LOSS; SOUND LAND MANAGEMENT;

CATCHMENTS;

CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; MODELING;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATERSHED;

BASINS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; SIMULATION;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645017956     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04389     Document Type: Article

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