Downscaling land-use data to provide global 30" estimates of five land-use classes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3040-3055

  Hoskins, Andrew J ^a   Bush, Alex ^a   Gilmore, James ^a   Harwood, Tom ^a   Hudson, Lawrence N ^b   Ware, Chris ^a   Williams, Kristen J ^a   Ferrier, Simon ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Global change; Land cover; Land use; Landscape modification; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962784511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2104     Document Type: Article

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