## Abstract Rapid land use/cover change and landscape fragmentation is occurring in many countries in central and southern Africa, as a result of colonial imbalances in land distribution, demographic pressure, agricultural expansion, government policies and environmental factors such as drought. Th
From pattern to process: landscape fragmentation and the analysis of land use/land cover change
β Scribed by Harini Nagendra; Darla K. Munroe; Jane Southworth
- Book ID
- 113419988
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 101
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-8809
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