Land-use threats and protected areas: A scenario-based, landscape level approach

Land

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 362-389

  Wilson, Tamara S ^a   Sleeter, Benjamin M ^a   Sleeter, Rachel R ^a   Soulard, Christopher E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion threat; IPCC; Land cover; Land use; Pacific Northwest; Protected areas; Scenarios; State and transition models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924594196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land3020362     Document Type: Review

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