Agricultural intensification on Brazil's amazonian soybean frontier

Land-Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-92

  Jepson, Wendy ^a   Brown, J Christopher ^b   Koeppe, Matthew ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78650368139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78864-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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