Land use change, air pollution and climate change-vegetation response in latin america

Developments in Environmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 411-427

  Kozovits, Alessandra R ^a   Bustamante, Mercedes M C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Drought; Functional groups; Land use change; Latin America; Nitrogen deposition; Ozone; Plant diversity; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888346526     PISSN: 14748177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-098349-3.00019-0     Document Type: Chapter

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