Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: What is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 629-642

  Crk, Tanja ^a   Uriarte, María ^a   Corsi, Fabio ^a   Flynn, Dan ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural abandonment; Forest transition; Secondary forest succession; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BIOPHYSICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE RESERVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SECONDARY FOREST; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; URBANIZATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 67349283000     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9338-8     Document Type: Article

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