Land changes and their driving forces in the Southeastern United States

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-53

  Napton, Darrell E ^a   Auch, Roger F ^b   Headley, Rachel ^b   Taylor, Janis L ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Land change; Land cover; US South

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949285169     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0084-x     Document Type: Article

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