Urbanization as a land use change driver of forest ecosystem services

Land Use Policy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 188-199

  Delphin, S ^a,b   Escobedo, F J ^a   Abd Elrahman, A ^a   Cropper, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Canada del Carmen No 2780   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Ecosystem service interactions; Ecosystem service trade offs; Spatio temporal analyses; Timber volume; Water yield

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMBER; URBANIZATION; WATER YIELD;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958957653     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.02.006     Document Type: Article

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