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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022 Mapping of deforestation, forest degradation, and recovery is essential to characterize country-level forest change and formulate mitigation actions. Previous studies have mainly used a simple forest/non-forest classification after forest disturbance to ...
Katsuto Shimizu +3 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 Forest degradation, generally defined as a reduction in the delivery of forest ecosystem services, can have long-term impacts on biodiversity, climate, and local livelihoods. The quantification of forest degradation, its dynamics and proximate causes can
Aurélie C. Shapiro +9 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Detecting forest degradation from satellite observation data is of great significance in revealing the process of decreasing forest quality and giving a better understanding of regional or global carbon emissions and their feedbacks with climate changes.
Tao Yu +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2020 The contribution of forest degradation to changes in forest carbon stocks remains poorly quantified and constitutes a main source of uncertainty in the forest carbon budget.
Fernando Sedano +7 more
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Monitoring Approach for Tropical Coniferous Forest Degradation Using Remote Sensing and Field Data
Remote Sensing, 2020 Current estimates of CO2 emissions from forest degradation are generally based on insufficient information and are characterized by high uncertainty, while a global definition of ‘forest degradation’ is currently being discussed in the scientific arena ...
Efraín Duarte +5 more
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Forest Degradation and Deforestation
, 2023 AbstractTropical forests are being disturbed by deforestation and forest degradation at an unprecedented pace (Hansen et al. in Science 342:850–853, 2013; Bullock et al. in Glob Change Biol 26:2956–2969, 2020). Deforestation completely removes the original forest cover and replaces it with another land cover type, such as pasture or agriculture fields.
Carlos Souza +4 more
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Mapping Forest Degradation and Contributing Factors in a Tropical Dry Forest
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Forest degradation reduces biomass density, contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, and affects biodiversity and natural resources available for local communities.
Diana Laura Jiménez-Rodríguez +6 more
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Characterizing degradation of palm swamp peatlands from space and on the ground: an exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon [PDF]
, 2017 Peru has the fourth largest area of peatlands in the Tropics. Its most representative land cover on peat is a Mauritia flexuosa dominated palm swamp (thereafter called dense PS), which has been under human pressure over decades due to the high demand for
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Has Forest Certification Reduced Forest Degradation in Sweden? [PDF]
Land Economics, 2018 This paper estimates the effects of certification of non-industrial private forest owners on forest degradation in Sweden – one of the countries with the largest total area of certified forests. We rely on official forest inventory data, information on certification status, and impact evaluation methods to identify the causal effect of certification on
Laura Villalobos +2 more
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