Expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5830, 2007, Pages 1451-

  Laporte, Nadine T ^a   Stabach, Jared A ^a   Grosch, Robert ^a   Lin, Tiffany S ^a   Goetz, Scott J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); REMOTE SENSING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AFRICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; LOGGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; INDUSTRY; TREES; WOOD;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34250182428     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141057     Document Type: Article

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8. Supported by NASA grants NNG05GD14G and NNS06AA06A. We thank E. Davidson, R. A. Houghton, and D. Nepstad for comments on the manuscript.