Land-use regime shifts: An analytical framework and agenda for future landuse research

Ecology and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ramankutty, Navin ^a,b   Coomes, Oliver T ^c  

^a UBC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Land cover change; Land use change; Latin America; Modeling; Prediction; Regime shifts

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; PREDICTION;

LATIN AMERICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84976599476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-08370-210201     Document Type: Article

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