found: Smail, R.A. Forest land conversion, ecosystem services, and economic issues for policy, 2009:p.1 (conversion of forest land to commercial and residential use; forest-land conversion) p. 4 (conversion of forest land to development)
found: Forest conversion: impact of agriculture and plantations, via WWW, Oct. 9, 2009(Conversion is an increasingly destructive practice whereby natural forests are chopped down to meet other land needs)
found: The dictionary of forestry, c1998(deforestation: the removal of a forest stand where the land is put to a nonforest use)
found: Kartodihardjo, H. The impact of sectoral development on natural forest conversion and degradation, 2000:abstr. (conversion of Indonesia's natural forests to timber and tree crop plantations; impact of this process on natural forest)
