Historical land use change and associated carbon emissions in Brazil from 1940 to 1995

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Leite, Christiane Cavalcante ^a   Costa, Marcos Heil ^a   Soares Filho, Britaldo Silveira ^b   De Barros Viana Hissa, Letícia ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; AMAZON DEFORESTATION; ATLANTIC FOREST; BIOMASS MAP; CARBON EMISSIONS; CENSUS DATA; CERRADO; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; FOSSIL FUEL BURNING; LAND USE PATTERN; LAND-USE CHANGE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; VEGETATION TYPE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; FOSSIL FUELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMASS; BIOME; CARBON EMISSION; CENSUS; CERRADO; DEFORESTATION; FOSSIL FUEL; LAND USE CHANGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84862103519     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004133     Document Type: Article

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