Impacts of civil conflict on primary forest habitat in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1990-2010

Biological Conservation

Volumn 170, Issue , 2014, Pages 321-328

  Nackoney, Janet ^a   Molinario, Giuseppe ^a   Potapov, Peter ^a   Turubanova, Svetlana ^a   Hansen, Matthew C ^a,b   Furuichi, Takeshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Civil conflict; Deforestation; DRC; Forest monitoring; Remote sensing; War

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST CLEARANCE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; POACHING; POST-WAR; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE USE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84896696425     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.12.033     Document Type: Article

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