Assessing the influence of land-cover change and conflicting land-use authorizations on ecosystem conversion on the forest frontier of Madre de Dios, Peru

Biological Conservation

Volumn 171, Issue , 2014, Pages 247-258

  Scullion, Jason J ^a   Vogt, Kristiina A ^a   Sienkiewicz, Alison ^a   Gmur, Stephan J ^a   Trujillo, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Centro de Estudios de la Amazonia Andina Con la Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica La Estación Biológica Villa Carmen Calle Cesar Vallejo   (Peru)

Author keywords

Conservation additionality; Ecosystem conservation; Frontier; Land conflict; Matching; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894033100     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.036     Document Type: Article

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