A global analysis of deforestation in moist tropical forest protected areas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Spracklen, B D ^a,b   Kalamandeen, M ^a   Galbraith, D ^a   Gloor, E ^a   Spracklen, D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Rowans   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMIDITY; NEOTROPICS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS; FOREST; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; HUMANS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84955616417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143886     Document Type: Article

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