Land-cover change to forest plantations: Proximate causes and implications for the landscape in south-central Chile

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-20

  Nahuelhual, Laura ^a   Carmona, Alejandra ^a   Lara, Antonio ^a   Echeverría, Cristian ^b   González, Mauro E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Autologistic regression; Exotic species; Land use change; Spatially explicit models; Timber plantations

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; TIMBER;

AFFORESTATION; AUTOLOGISTIC REGRESSION; EXOTIC SPECIES; LAND-USE CHANGE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS;

EXPANSION;

AFFORESTATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST SOIL; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND COVER; LANDHOLDING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE ANGLE; SOCIAL IMPACT; TIMBER;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; E I S; EXPANSION; FORESTATION; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHILE;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 84861798502     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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