Rebuilding the Brazilian rainforest: Agroforestry strategies for secondary forest succession

Applied Geography

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-181

  Blinn, Christine E ^a   Browder, John O ^a   Pedlowski, Marcos A ^b   Wynne, Randolph H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Development; Frontier; Land use; Landsat; Multi temporal

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMBER;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84881304536     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.06.013     Document Type: Article

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