Combined effects of climate and land-use change on the future of humid tropical forests

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 395-403

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Loarie, Scott R ^a   Heyder, Ursula ^b,c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biodiversity; Climate change; Congo; Deforestation; Degradation; Indonesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958089010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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