The southern megalopolis: Using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast U.S.

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Terando, Adam J ^a,b   Costanza, Jennifer ^b   Belyea, Curtis ^b   Dunn, Robert R ^b   McKerrow, Alexa ^a,b   Collazo, Jaime A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84904620111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102261     Document Type: Article

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