Reforestation policies around 2000 in southern China led to forest densification and expansion in the 2010s
Abstract Forest expansion has been observed in China over the past decades, but the typically applied coarse resolution satellite data does not reveal spatial details about China’s forest transition. By using three decades of satellite observations at a 30-m spatial resolution, we reveal here the co...
Main Authors: | Xiaowei Tong, Martin Brandt, Yuemin Yue, Xiaoxin Zhang, Rasmus Fensholt, Philippe Ciais, Kelin Wang, Siyu Liu, Wenmin Zhang, Chen Mao, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-07-01
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Series: | Communications Earth & Environment |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00923-1 |
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