Land use change and carbon fluxes in East Africa quantified using earth observation data and field measurements
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M. PFEIFER 1 , 2 ∗, P . J . PLATTS 2 , 3 , N . D . B U R G E S S 3 , 4 , 5 , R . D. S W ET NAM 6 , S . WILLCOCK 7 , S . L . LEWIS 7 AND R. MARCHANT 2 1Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Buckhurst Road, London SL5 7PY, UK, 2York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics, Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK, 3Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK, 4Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 5WWF-US Conservation Science Programme, Washington DC, USA, 6Department of Geography, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DF, UK, and 7School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Date submitted: 23 March 2012; Date accepted: 27 September 2012; First published online: 10 December 2012
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