Impacts of forest cover change on ecosystem services in high Andean mountains

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-75

  Balthazar, Vincent ^a   Vanacker, Veerle ^a   Molina, Armando ^b,c   Lambin, Eric F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Ecosystem services; Ecuador; Forest transition; Land cover change; Landscape capacity; P ramo; Pine plantations

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; REFORESTATION;

ANDES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ECUADOR; FOREST TRANSITION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CAPACITY; PINE PLANTATIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; PLANTATION; REFORESTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARRYING CAPACITY; FOREST DYNAMICS; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PARAMO; PLANTATION FORESTRY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PINUS; PLANTATIONS; REFORESTATION;

ANDES; AVEIRO [PORTUGAL]; PARAMOS; PORTUGAL; ECUADOR;

EID: 84906690424     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.07.043     Document Type: Article

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