Assessing deforestation and fragmentation in a tropical moist forest over 68 years; the impact of roads and legal protection in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 315, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-152

  Newman, Minke E ^a   McLaren, Kurt P ^a   Wilson, Byron S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Forest fragmentation; Image classification; Remote sensing; Road density

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FRAGMENTATIONS; FRAGMENTATION ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; ROAD DENSITY; TROPICAL MOIST FOREST;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS AND STREETS;

DEFORESTATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CLASSIFICATION; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

JAMAICA;

EID: 84892632487     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.12.033     Document Type: Article

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