Forest dynamics and the importance of place in western Honduras

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-110

  Redo, Danny ^a   Joby Bass, J O ^b   Millington, Andrew C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest transition; Honduras; Land use and land cover change; Landscape ecology; Remote sensing; Site selection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOTONE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SITE SELECTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; HONDURAS;

EID: 58749110490     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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