Tropical Forests The Challenges of Maintaining Ecosystem Services while Managing the Landscape

• Other Authors: Blanco, Juan A. (Editor), Chang, Shih-Chieh (Editor), Lo, Yueh-Hsin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2016
• Subjects: Meteorology & climatology; remote sensing, land use, photosynthesis, vegetation, diversity, forest degradation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Large regions of the planet have been transformed from their natural composition into different human-made landscapes (farmlands, forest plantations, pastures, etc.). Such process, called land use change, is one of the major components of the current global change, which has brought the planet into...