Effects of coffee management on deforestation rates and forest integrity

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1031-1040

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Nemomissa, Sileshi ^b   Delrue, Josefien ^a   Enkosa, Woldeyohannes ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c Department of Biology   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Certification; Degradation; Edge effects; Ethiopia; Fragmentation; Homogenization; Landsat; Remote sensing; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; ELEVATION; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ETHIOPIA;

COFFEA ARABICA; PSYCHOTRIA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BOSQUE TROPICAL; CERTIFICACIÓN; CERTIFICATION; COFFEE; DEGRADACIÓN; DEGRADATION; EDGE EFFECTS; EFECTO DE BORDE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHIOPIA; ETIOPÍA; FRAGMENTACIÓN; FRAGMENTATION; GEOGRAPHY; HOMOGENIZACIÓN; HOMOGENIZATION; LANDSAT; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPCIÓN REMOTA; REMOTE SENSING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BOSQUE TROPICAL; CERTIFICACIÓN; CERTIFICATION; DEGRADACIÓN; DEGRADATION; EDGE EFFECTS; EFECTO DE BORDE; ETHIOPIA; ETIOPÍA; FRAGMENTACIÓN; FRAGMENTATION; HOMOGENIZACIÓN; HOMOGENIZATION; LANDSAT; PERCEPCIÓN REMOTA; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; COFFEA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHIOPIA; GEOGRAPHY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84884717258     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12079     Document Type: Article

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