Scenarios of land use and land cover change for NW Amazonia: Impact on forest intactness

Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) are important drivers of environmental changes in the tropics. Amazônia Legal has showed some declines in deforestation rates, but NW Amazonia has become one of the most recent/new hotspots of forest loss in the Amazon basin. Regional models of change are to...

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Main Authors: Dolors Armenteras, Uriel Murcia, Tania Marisol González, Oscar Javier Barón, Jorge Eliecer Arias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418304876