Trends in size of tropical deforestation events signal increasing dominance of industrial-scale drivers

Deforestation continues across the tropics at alarming rates, with repercussions for ecosystem processes, carbon storage and long term sustainability. Taking advantage of recent fine-scale measurement of deforestation, this analysis aims to improve our understanding of the scale of deforestation dri...

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Main Authors: Kemen G Austin, Mariano González-Roglich, Danica Schaffer-Smith, Amanda M Schwantes, Jennifer J Swenson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6a88