Land Cover Change in Colombia: Surprising Forest Recovery Trends between 2001 and 2010

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sánchez Cuervo, Ana María ^a   Aide, T Mitchell ^a   Clark, Matthew L ^b   Etter, Andrés ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIOME; CLASSIFIER; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC NAMES; GOVERNMENT; HABITAT; LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE; TREND STUDY; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; CITIES; COLOMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

URABA;

EID: 84865590370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043943     Document Type: Article

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