Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?

Conservation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 469-475

  Richards, Peter ^a,b   Arima, Eugenio ^c   VanWey, Leah ^a   Cohn, Avery ^d   Bhattarai, Nishan ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; deforestation; greenhouse gas emissions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997817455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12310     Document Type: Letter

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