Pine plantations and five decades of land use change in central Chile

The expansion of forest plantations is cause for concern because of their environmental effects, and the loss of native forests and agricultural land. Our goal was to quantify the increase in pine plantation, and concomitant loss of native forests, in central Chile since ca. 1960, and to identify in...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 15; no. 3; p. e0230193
Main Authors:	Uribe, Sandra V., Estades, Cristián F., Radeloff, Volker C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 13.03.2020 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Aerial photography Agricultural land Agricultural production Biology and Life Sciences Earth Sciences Ecology and Environmental Sciences Environmental effects Euclidean geometry Farmlands Forests Image classification Image resolution Land use Land use controls Landsat Landsat satellites Livestock People and places Pine Plantations Pulp Pulp & paper mills Pulp mills Reforestation Remote sensing Satellite imagery Satellites Setting (Literature) Slopes Social Sciences Vegetation Chile United States > US
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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