Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Meyfroidt, Patrick ^a,b   Carlson, Kimberly M ^c   Fagan, Matthew E ^d,j   Gutiérrez Vélez, Victor H ^d   Macedo, Marcia N ^e   Curran, Lisa M ^f   Defries, Ruth S ^d   Dyer, George A ^g,l   Gibbs, Holly K ^h   Lambin, Eric F ^a,i   Morton, Douglas C ^j   Robiglio, Valentina ^k  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^l ABT Inc   (United States)

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Author keywords

agricultural intensification; deforestation drivers; indirect land use change; land sparing; land use displacement; market integration

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CROPS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; EXPANSION STRATEGIES; FOREST ENCROACHMENT; INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES; MARKET INTEGRATION; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPES;

EXPANSION;

COMMERCE; DEFORESTATION; E I S; FARM CROPS; LAND USE; MARKET RESEARCH; PLANT RESIDUES;

EID: 84905180495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074012     Document Type: Article

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