Reforestation amidst deforestation: Simultaneity and succession

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 425-441

  Sloan, Sean ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayano; Cattle ranching; Dari n; Deforestation; Forest transition; Panama; Reforestation; Tree plantation

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PLANTATION; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUCCESSION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

BOS;

EID: 53049095656     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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