Quantifying successional land cover after clearing of tropical rainforest along forest frontiers in the Congo Basin
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Geography
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0272-3646,1930-0557
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2013.855698