Sixty-Seven Years of Land-Use Change in Southern Costa Rica

Volume: 10, Issue: 11, Pages: e0143554 - e0143554
Published: Nov 23, 2015
Abstract
Habitat loss and fragmentation of forests are among the biggest threats to biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in tropical landscapes. We use the vicinity of the Las Cruces Biological Station in southern Costa Rica as a regional case study to document seven decades of land-use change in one of the most intensively studied sites in the Neotropics. Though the premontane wet forest was largely intact in 1947, a wave of immigration in...
Paper Details
Title
Sixty-Seven Years of Land-Use Change in Southern Costa Rica
Published Date
Nov 23, 2015
Journal
Volume
10
Issue
11
Pages
e0143554 - e0143554
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