Trends in Land Degradation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the role of climate change

Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science)

Volumn , Issue 9783540724377, 2007, Pages 65-81

  Santibáñez, Fernando ^a   Santibáñez, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RAIN; TROPICS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; LOW INPUT AGRICULTURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85028879500     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72438-4_4     Document Type: Article

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