Determinants of the spatial distribution of cultivated land in the North Argentine Dry Chaco in a multi-decadal study

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-39

  Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio ^a   Grau, H Ricardo ^a   Sacchi, Laura Valeria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b CONICET UNT   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Deforestation; Logistic regression; Soybean; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGROINDUSTRY; CULTIVATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DEFORESTATION; INFRASTRUCTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGISTICS; MAPPING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARGENTINA; GRAN CHACO;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84943523918     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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