The human footprint as a conservation planning tool

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 281-301

  Trombulak, Stephen C ^a   Baldwin, Robert F ^b   Woolmer, Gillian ^c  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WCS Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Human Footprint; Human influence; Northern Appalachian Acadian ecoregion; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955114156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9575-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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