Land-cover change and human population trends in the greater Serengeti ecosystem from 1984-2003

Biological Conservation

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 255-263

  Estes, Anna Bond ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b,c   Kushnir, Hadas ^d   Radeloff, Volker Christian ^e   Shugart, Herman Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigration; Isolation; Land cover change; Landsat; Protected areas; Serengeti

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; ARABLE LAND; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; IMMIGRATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH;

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK; TANZANIA;

EID: 84858159351     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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