The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-86

  Klein Goldewijk, Kees ^a   Beusen, Arthur ^a   Van Drecht, Gerard ^a   De Vos, Martine ^a  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural development; Cropland; DGVM; EMIC; ESM; Historical population; Human impact; IPCC; Land use; Pasture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PASTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650072884     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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