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Sprawling roads enhanced tropical forest loss during the period 2001–2020

Communications Earth & Environment
Sprawling road networks cutting through forested areas continue to be a potent catalyst of deforestation in tropical regions. Yet, pantropical assessments limited by the lack of high-resolution global maps of tropical forest loss induced by road networks.
Xincheng Zheng, Jin Chen, Zeyao Zou, Shiyong Zhen, Shuang Liu, Jiazheng Li, Xueman Zuo, Sen Lin, Zhilong Wu, Ludan Zhang, Qinxian Lin, Guodong Yan, Tao Hong, Rongzu Qiu, Jian Li, Chengzhen Wu, Xisheng Hu   +16 more
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Maintenance of forest road network by natural forest management in Tokyo University Forest in Hokkaido

Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2005
Forest road network in the Tokyo University Forest in Hokkaido plays an important role in selling low price trees, and has a key role in intensive forest management. Forest road network also contributes to water conservation and biodiversity.
Igor Potočnik, Takuyuki Yoshioka, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Hideo Igarashi, Hideo Sakai   +4 more
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Comparison of Aquatic-Insect Habitat and Diversity Above and Below Road Crossings in Low-Order Streams [PDF]

, 2007
The effects of road crossings on fish communities have been extensively studied; yet little attention has been given to macroinvertebrate communities. This study evaluated physical stream characteristics, water quality, and aquatic-insect richness from ...
Batten, Benjamin G., Behler, David A., Harris, Nathan J., Kumaran, Sathyanand, Lang, Thomas J., Melandri, Marcella, Neal, J. Wesley, Port, Paul R.   +7 more
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Managing Forests for Water Quality: Forest Roads

, 2004
Access to privately owned forest land is necessary for many reasons: forest management activities such as site preparation, planting, and harvesting; recreational activities such as hunting, fi shing, hiking and camping; fi re suppression; and access to home or cabin sites.
Daniels, Barbara, McAvoy, Darren, Kuhns, Michael R., Gropp, Ron   +3 more
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Watershed Forest Management Information System (WFMIS) [PDF]

, 2008
Maintenance of a sustainable clean water supply is critical for our future. However, watershed degradation is a common phenomenon around the world that leads to poor water quality.
Barten, P. K., Zhang, Yanli
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Impacts of logging roads on intact forest landscapes in the tropics [PDF]

, 2017
Road networks are growing globally, especially in tropical countries, allowing human access to remaining Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) that are refuges for biodiversity and provide globally important ecosystem services.
Gourlet, Sylvie, Healey, John R., Kleinschroth, Fritz   +2 more
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Radar-based Feature Design and Multiclass Classification for Road User Recognition

, 2019
The classification of individual traffic participants is a complex task, especially for challenging scenarios with multiple road users or under bad weather conditions.
Appenrodt, Nils, Dickmann, Jürgen, Scheiner, Nicolas, Sick, Bernhard   +3 more
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Roads, population pressures, and deforestation in Thailand, 1976-89 [PDF]

Tropical deforestation is considered one of the major environmental disasters of the 20th century, although there have been few careful studies of its causes.
Cropper, Maureen, Griffiths, Charles, Mani, Muthukumara   +2 more
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Bryophytes of Uganda : 1., BBS Tropical Bryology Group expeditions, 1996-1998 ; introduction and collecting sites [PDF]

, 1999
The British Bryological Society Tropical Bryology Group (TBG) undertook three expeditions to Uganda, in Jan-Feb 1996, Jan-Feb 1997 and June-Jul 1998.
Hodgetts, Nick G., Porley, Ron D., Wigginton, Martin J.   +2 more
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MINIMIZING THE IMPACTS OF THE FOREST ROAD SYSTEM [PDF]

Sediment movement from forest road systems is a major concern in forest management due to the degrading impacts of stream sedimentation. Controlling sediment movement from road systems is a key objective to achieve the goat of reducing the impact of ...
Johnny M. Grace Iii
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