Forest degradation deepens around and within protected areas in East Asia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1295-1298

  Tang, Lina ^a   Shao, Guofan ^b   Piao, Zhengji ^c   Dai, Limin ^d   Jenkins, Michael A ^b   Wang, Shaoxian ^c   Wu, Gang ^e   Wu, Jianguo ^f   Zhao, Jingzhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jilin Changbai Mountain Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere reserves; Cross border conservation; Forest degradation; Remote sensing; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVE DESIGN; SATELLITE SENSOR; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CHINA; KOREA;

EID: 77951023804     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.024     Document Type: Article

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