Tropical nature reserves are losing their buffer zones, but leakage is not to blame

Environmental Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 580-589

  Lui, Gillian V ^a   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Global Forest Change dataset; Leakage; Protected areas; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE; LEAKAGE; NATURE RESERVE; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AFRICA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; FORESTS; INTERNATIONALITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84961828607     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.11.008     Document Type: Article

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