Contextualizing Landscape-Scale Forest Cover Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2000 and 2015
Shifting cultivation has been shown to be the primary cause of land use change in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Traditionally, forested and fallow land are rotated in a slash and burn cycle that has created an agricultural mosaic, including secondary forest, known as the rural complex. Thi...
Main Authors: | Giuseppe Molinario, Matthew Hansen, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Stephen Stehman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-01-01
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Series: | Land |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/1/23 |
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