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SECLAVEMEX Aimed at Integrating Land-cover and Vegetation Mapping

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Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification

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Vegetation, either natural or cultural, from the local to global scale, portrays the baseline for land-use planning. In order to enhance the role of vegetation in land-use planning, distribution patterns in map formats need to be constructed.

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  1. Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Alejandro Velázquez, Consuelo Medina García & Luis Fernando Gopar Merino

  2. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

    Elvira Durán Medina

  3. Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Alfredo Amador

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Velázquez, A., Medina García, C., Durán Medina, E., Amador, A., Gopar Merino, L.F. (2016). SECLAVEMEX Aimed at Integrating Land-cover and Vegetation Mapping. In: Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41222-1_5

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