Amazonia revealed: Forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-32

  Foley, Jonathan A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Costa, Marcos Heil ^c   Coe, Michael T ^d   DeFries, Ruth ^e   Gibbs, Holly K ^a   Howard, Erica A ^a   Olson, Sarah ^a   Patz, Jonathan ^a   Ramankutty, Navin ^a   Snyder, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST HEALTH; LAND USE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAINFOREST; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SELECTIVE LOGGING; WATER BUDGET;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846976468     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[25:ARFDAL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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