Forest transition in Vietnam and its environmental impacts

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1319-1336

  Meyfroidt, Patrick ^a   Lambin, Eric F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon stock; Deforestation; Forest transition; Fuzzy Kappa; Habitat fragmentation; Land cover change; Reforestation; Remote sensing; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 43349098750     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01575.x     Document Type: Article

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