Landscape Dynamics in Northwestern Amazonia: An Assessment of Pastures, Fire and Illicit Crops as Drivers of Tropical Deforestation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Armenteras, Dolors ^a   Rodríguez, Nelly ^a   Retana, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOREST LOSS; ILLICIT CROP; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PASTURE; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; COLOMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; RIVERS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84873879803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054310     Document Type: Article

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