Total historical land-use change in eastern Bolivia: Who, where, when, and how much?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Killeen, Timothy J ^a   Guerra, Anna ^b   Calzada, Miki ^b   Correa, Lisette ^b   Calderon, Veronica ^b   Soria, Liliana ^b   Quezada, Belem ^b   Steininger, Marc K ^a  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans

^b Museo Noel Kempff Mercado

Author keywords

Deforestation; Drivers; Land cover change; Markets; Migration; Social sector's; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; DEFORESTATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MIGRATION; MONTANE FOREST; SAVANNA; SECONDARY FOREST; SHRUBLAND; WETLAND;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 50149122628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02453-130136     Document Type: Article

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