Linkages between soybean and neotropical deforestation: Coupling and transient decoupling dynamics in a multi-decadal analysis

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1605-1614

  Gasparri, N I ^a   Grau, H R ^a   Gutierrez Angonese J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Argentina; Dry Chaco; Land use; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CULTIVATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SOYBEAN;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL;

BOS; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84889090179     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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