Land-use choices: Balancing human needs and ecosystem function

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 249-257

  DeFries, Ruth S ^a   Foley, Jonathan A ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84957636591     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0249:LCBHNA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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