Land Cover Change in the Andes of Southern Ecuador—Patterns and Drivers

Land Cover Change in the Andes of Southern Ecuador—Patterns and Drivers

In the megadiverse tropical mountain forest in the Andes of southern Ecuador, a global biodiversity hotspot, the use of fire to clear land for cattle ranching is leading to the invasion of an aggressive weed, the bracken fern, which is threatening diversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services...

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Main Authors: Giulia F. Curatola Fernández, Wolfgang A. Obermeier, Andrés Gerique, María Fernanda López Sandoval, Lukas W. Lehnert, Boris Thies, Jörg Bendix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-03-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
land cover change
remote sensing
Ecuador
Andes
fragmentation
bracken fern
deforestation drivers
Landsat
image pre-processing
attractors of landscape change
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/3/2509

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