Measuring woody encroachment along a forest-savanna boundary in Central Africa
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2009
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Mitchard, Edward T.A
Saatchi, Sassan S
Gerard, F F
Lewis , S. L.
Meir, Patrick
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American Meteorological Society
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Changes in net area of tropical forest are the sum of several processes: deforestation, regeneration of previously deforested areas, and the changing spatial location of the forest-savanna boundary. The authors conducted a long-term (1986-2006) quantification of vegetation change in a 5400 km 2.
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Keywords: Central Africa; Change detection; Ecotone; Spatial location; Tropical forest; Vegetation change; Woody encroachments; Deforestation; Reforestation Change detection; Ecotone; Woody encroachment
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Earth Interactions
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