Land cover dynamics in Osa Region, Costa Rica: secondary forest is here to stay

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1461-1472

  Algeet Abarquero, Nur ^a   Sánchez Azofeifa, Arturo ^b   Bonatti, Javier ^c   Marchamalo, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Forest transition; Land cover change; Payments for environmental services (PES); Remote sensing; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941997584     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0714-9     Document Type: Article

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