Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

Scientific Data

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Venter, Oscar ^a,b,c   Sanderson, Eric W ^d   Magrach, Ainhoa ^e,f   Allan, James R ^b   Beher, Jutta ^b   Jones, Kendall R ^b   Possingham, Hugh P ^b,g   Laurance, William F ^c   Wood, Peter ^c   Fekete, Balázs M ^h   Levy, Marc A ⁱ   Watson, James E M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h City College of the City University of New York   (United States)

ⁱ Earth Institute   (United States)

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EID: 84984650185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.67     Document Type: Article

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