The forests are bleeding: How land use change is creating a new fire regime in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Journal of Latin American Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-100

  Messina, Joseph P ^a   Cochrane, Mark A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Fires; Physical climatology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BURNING; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249022629     PISSN: 15452476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lag.2007.0007     Document Type: Article

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