Attributing changes in land cover using independent disturbance datasets: a case study of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 213-228

  Mascorro, Vanessa S ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Kurz, Werner A ^b   Olguín, Marcela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Proyecto Mexico Noruega   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbon modeling; CBM CFS3; Forest disturbance; Mexico; MRV; REDD+

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953350919     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0739-0     Document Type: Article

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