The Worldwide Extent of Land-Use Change
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 44 (5), 305-313
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1312380
Abstract
R. A. Houghton; The Worldwide Extent of Land-use ChangeIn the last few centuries, and particularly in the last several decades, effects of land-use change haveKeywords
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