Disentangling the proximate factors of deforestation: The case of the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in Mexico

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-32

  Honey Roses J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere reserve; Causal chains of explanation; Community forestry; Deforestation; Illegal logging; Mexico; Monarch buttertly

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE RESERVE; CAUSAL CHAINS OF EXPLANATION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; ILLEGAL LOGGING; MEXICO; MONARCH BUTTERTLY;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERICS; DEGRADATION; LOGGING (FORESTRY); TIMBER;

DEFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERE; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; LOGGING; RESERVES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 68649120933     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.874     Document Type: Article

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