Deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2010

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2261-2270

  Miettinen, Jukka ^a   Shi, Chenghua ^a   Liew, Soo Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Borneo; Forest cover; Land use; Maritime continent; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DEFORESTATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PEATLAND; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SWAMP FOREST;

BORNEO; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 79957841159     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02398.x     Document Type: Article

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