Biodiversity conservation, traditional agriculture and ecotourism: Land cover/land use change projections for a natural protected area in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 137-153

  García Frapolli, Eduardo ^a   Ayala Orozco, Bárbara ^b   Bonilla Moheno, Martha ^b   Espadas Manrique, Celene ^c   Ramos Fernández, Gabriel ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Ecotourism; Land use and land cover changes; Markovian chains; Milpa agriculture; Yucatan Peninsula

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ECOTOURISM; LAND COVER CHANGES; MILPA AGRICULTURE; NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS (NPA); RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECOTOURISM; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUCCESSION; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 35548987100     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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