Forest dynamics and land-use transitions in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: the case of sugarcane expansion

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 365-377

  Ferreira, Matheus Pinheiro ^a   Alves, Diógenes Salas ^a   Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest transition; Land use and land cover change (LULCC); Multitemporal thematic mapper imagery; Secondary forests; Spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929306027     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0652-6     Document Type: Article

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