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FOREST ECOLOGY: Satellites Spy More Forest Than Expected
Jocelyn Kaiser
Experts still don't have a good handle on exactly how quickly tropical forests are disappearing. Now on page 999, scientists describe an effort to fill that data void: one of the first studies to assess humid tropical forest with satellite data rather than on-the-ground measurements and guesswork.
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EDITORIAL
Alan Leshner (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 897.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5583.897] |Summary »|PDF »
NEWS FOCUS
Charles C. Mann (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 920.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5583.920] |Summary »|Full Text »|PDF »
LETTERS
H. Huang, X. Han, L. Kang, P. Raven, P. W. Jackson, and Y. Chen (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 935b.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5583.935b] |Full Text »|PDF »
BOOKS
David Pearce (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 941.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1073480] |Summary »|Full Text »|PDF »
REVIEW
Andrew Balmford, Aaron Bruner, Philip Cooper, Robert Costanza, Stephen Farber, Rhys E. Green, Martin Jenkins, Paul Jefferiss, Valma Jessamy, Joah Madden, Kat Munro, Norman Myers, Shahid Naeem, Jouni Paavola, Matthew Rayment, Sergio Rosendo, Joan Roughgarden, Kate Trumper, and R. Kerry Turner (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 950.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1073947] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
ASSOCIATION AFFAIRS
Peter H. Raven (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 954.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5583.954] |Summary »|Full Text »|PDF »
REPORTS
Frédéric Achard, Hugh D. Eva, Hans-Jürgen Stibig, Philippe Mayaux, Javier Gallego, Timothy Richards, and Jean-Paul Malingreau (9 August 2002) Science297 (5583), 999.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1070656] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
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