Forests and drugs: Coca-driven deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1219-1277

  Dávalos, Liliana M ^a   Bejarano, Adriana C ^b   Hall, Mark A ^a   Correa, H Leonardo ^c   Corthals, Angelique ^d   Espejo, Oscar J ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Sistema Integrado de Monitoreo de Cultivos Ilícitos   (Colombia)

^d JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON FORESTS; COLOMBIA; COVARIATES; FOREST CONVERSION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST LOSS; GROWING REGIONS; HOTSPOTS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; POPULATION DENSITIES; PROTECTED AREAS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS;

DEFORESTATION;

COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

BIODIVERSITY; COCOA; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOT SPOT; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; PROTECTED AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COCA; COLOMBIA; DEFORESTATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; PROTECTION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TILLAGE; TROPICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; COLOMBIA; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANDES; CHOCO; COLOMBIA;

BIODIVERSITY; COCA; COCAINE; COLOMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL POPULATION; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79951615494     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102373d     Document Type: Article

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