Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

Humid tropical forests provide numerous global ecosystem services, but are under continuing threat of clearing from economic drivers. Here, we report primary humid tropical forest extent for the year 2001, and primary forest loss and distance to loss from 2002–2014 for the largest rainforest countri...

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Main Authors: Svetlana Turubanova, Peter V Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Matthew C Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c