A review of global potentially available cropland estimates and their consequences for model-based assessments

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1236-1248

  Eitelberg, David A ^a   van Vliet, Jasper ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Cropland expansion; Land availability; Land reserve; Land use; Land change model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH;

AGRICULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84922970142     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12733     Document Type: Article

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