Extensification of Agricultural Land-Use Generates Severe Effects on the Critically Endangered Inter-Andean Dry Forest in the Ecuadorian Andean Landscape
The Inter-Andean Dry Forest is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. The extensification of anthropogenic land-use has transformed the Inter-Andean Dry Forest in the landscape of the Rio Chota watershed, Ecuador. However, there is no evaluation of the land use/land cover dynamics to de...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2023-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Landscape Ecology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0020 |