Sources for the South American region

ARGENTINA:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

BOLIVIA:
Brockman, C. (Ed) (1978) Memoria del Mapa de Cobertura y Uso de la Tierra. ERTS-GEOBOL, La Paz, Bolivia.

Centro de Datos para la Conservacion (CDC) - Bolivia (1992) Bolivia - Areas Boscosas. Unknown scale and projection.

BRAZIL:
Fundacao Instituto Brasileriro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE). (1993) Mapa de Vegetacao do Brasil. 1:5,000,000, (polyconic projection). IBAMA.

CHILE:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

COLOMBIA:
Codazzi, A. Ministerio de Hacienda and Instituto Geográfico (1995). República de Colombia: Mapa de Bosques. 1:1,500,000 scale, based on IGAC-INDERENA (1984). Mapa de Bosques de Colombia. 1:500,000 scale.

ECUADOR:
CLIRSEN and DINAF (1991). República del Ecuador - Mapa Forestal. Scale 1:1,000,000.

CLIRSEN and DINAF (1987). Mapa Forestal de Manglares.

FALKLAND ISLANDS:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

FRENCH GUIANA:
Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropicale (1979) Vegetation-La Guyane: Plance 12. Atlas des Departements d'Outre Mer. Scale 1:1,000,000.

GUYANA:
Huber, O., G. Gharbarran and V. Funk (1995) Vegetation map of Guyana. 1:1,000,000. From Landsat 5 and other sources.

PARAGUAY:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

PERU:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

SURINAM:
National Planning Office of Suriname (1988). The Vegetation of the Suriname Planatlas. Scale 1: 1,000,000, based on Teunissen (1978) Reconnaissance Map of Surinam Lowland Ecosystems.

TRINIDAD:
Institutional Consultants (International) Ltd., Forestry Division Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).(1980). Inventory of the Indigenous Forest of Trinidad - Forest Resource Inventory and Management Section.

URUGUAY:
U.S.G.S. EROS data Centre (1997) South America Seasonal Land Cover Regions. The data have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR digital images spanning April 1992 through March 1993. (Lambert azimuthal projection).

VENEZUELA:
Huber, O. and Alarcon, C. (1988) Mapa de Vegetación de Venezuela. The Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales Renovables and The Nature Conservancy. Scale 1:2,000,000.

MARNR (1989). Manglares de Venezuela. Distribución Geográfica de los Manglares en Venezuela. Cuadernos, Lagoven, Caracas.