Comparing field-based monitoring and remote-sensing, using deforestation from logging at Important Bird Areas as a case study

Biological Conservation

Volumn 167, Issue , 2013, Pages 334-338

  Buchanan, Graeme M ^a   Fishpool, Lincoln D C ^b   Evans, Michael I ^b   Butchart, Stuart H M ^b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forest loss; Land cover change; Logging; Monitoring; Site based conservation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; FIELD SURVEY; HABITAT LOSS; LAND COVER; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84884342393     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.08.031     Document Type: Article

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