A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 7897-7908

  Senior, Rebecca A ^a   Hill, Jane K ^b   González del Pliego, Pamela ^a   Goode, Laurel K ^c   Edwards, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; land use change; scale; temperature; thermal; tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030661168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3262     Document Type: Article

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