Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-333

  Harper, Grady J ^a   Steininger, Marc K ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^b   Juhn, Daniel ^a   Hawkins, Frank ^a,c  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Forest; Fragmentation; Madagascar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION;

LANDSAT IMAGES; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEFORESTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; PALEOCLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST STRUCTURE; MADAGASCAR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FRAGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 36749030683     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907004262     Document Type: Article

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