Monitoring biodiversity using remote sensing and field surveys

Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 78-102

  Mucher C A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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