Milpa imprint on the tropical dry forest landscape in Yucatan, Mexico: Remote sensing & field measurement of edge vegetation

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-304

  Daniels, Amy E ^a   Painter, Katie ^a   Southworth, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Edges effects; Ejidos; Land cover and land use feedbacks; Land cover modification; MANCOVA; Milpa; Multidate remote sensing with Landsat images; Swidden agriculture; Tropical dry forest; Yucatan Peninsula

Indexed keywords

CROP; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; YUCATAN;

EID: 36048948573     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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