Modelling avocado-driven deforestation in Michoacán, Mexico

Modelling avocado-driven deforestation in Michoacán, Mexico

As demand for avocado climbs, avocado production in Michoacán—Mexico’s biggest avocado growing region—expands into new places. We use a spatial probit model to project the geographic distribution of likely future avocado expansion and analyze those results to determine (a) threats to specific forest...

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Main Authors: Eugenio Y Arima, Audrey Denvir, Kenneth R Young, Antonio González-Rodríguez, Felipe García-Oliva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
land use change
land change modelling
commodities
climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5419

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