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Updated 16 November 2007

OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008 A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget

Spatial distribution and intensity of selectively logged areas summarized into 25 by 25 km grid cells in 1992, 1996, and 1999 for the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Credit: E.A.T. Matricardi, D.L. Skole, and W.H. Chomentowski, Michigan State University; M.A. Cochrane, South Dakota State University; and M. Pedlowski, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil (reproduced from the International Journal of Remote Sensing with permission from the publisher Taylor & Francis Group). Back to Land Use and Land Cover Change >>

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