Browsing by Author "Defries, Ruth"

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Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation

Rudel, Thomas K.; Defries, Ruth; Asner, Gregory P.; Laurance, William F. (2009)

Over the past 50 years, human agents of deforestation have changed in ways that have potentially important implications for conservation efforts. We characterized these changes through a meta-analysis of case studies of ...
A contemporary assessment of change in humid tropical forests

Asner, Gregory P.; Rudel, Thomas K.; Aide, Thomas Mitchell; Defries, Ruth; Emerson, Ruth (2009)

In recent decades the rate and geographic extent of land-use and land-cover change has increased throughout the world's humid tropical forests. The pan-tropical geography of forest change is a challenge to assess, and ...

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