Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends.

New England has lost more than 350,000 ha of forest cover since 1985, marking a reversal of a two-hundred-year trend of forest expansion. We a cellular land-cover change model to project a continuation of recent trends (1990-2010) in forest loss across six New England states from 2010 to 2060. Recen...

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Main Authors: Jonathan R Thompson, Joshua S Plisinski, Pontus Olofsson, Christopher E Holden, Matthew J Duveneck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5730125?pdf=render