Projecting land-use change and its consequences for biodiversity in northern thailand

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 626-639

  Trisurat, Yongyut ^a   Alkemade, Rob ^b   Verburg, Peter H ^c  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deforestation; GIS; Land use modeling; Landscape; Northern Thailand

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BIODIVERSITY VALUES; CONSERVATION MEASURES; CONSERVATION POLICY; FOREST AREA; FOREST COVER; LAND-USE CHANGE; LAND-USE MODELING; LAND-USE PATTERNS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTHERN THAILAND; RAPID DEFORESTATION; REGION-BASED; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAND USE CHANGE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST STRUCTURE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; THAILAND; VEGETATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THAILAND; TREES;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; GIS; LAND USE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

THAILAND;

EID: 77952089730     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9438-x     Document Type: Article

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