Recent cropping frequency, expansion, and abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil had selective land characteristics

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Spera, Stephanie A ^a   Cohn, Avery S ^a,b,c   Vanwey, Leah K ^a   Mustard, Jack F ^a   Rudorff, Bernardo F ^d   Risso, Joel ^e   Adami, Marcos ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Energy Biosciences Institute University of California ^*  (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

agricultural abandonment; agricultural expansion; Brazil; land suitability; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; BRAZIL; LAND SUITABILITY; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

EXPANSION;

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROPPING PRACTICE; GROWING SEASON; POLICY MAKING; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

EID: 84903589569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064010     Document Type: Article

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