Land use change patterns in the Río de la Plata grasslands: The influence of phytogeographic and political boundaries

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 287-292

  Vega, Ernesto ^a   Baldi, German ^b   Jobbágy, Esteban G ^b   Paruelo, José ^a  

^a CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Crop expansion; Markovian matrix models; Matrix sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; BIOPHYSICS; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MARKOV CHAIN; PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349124556     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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