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SUBMITTER: Gibbs HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2944736 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gibbs H K HK Ruesch A S AS Achard F F Clayton M K MK Holmgren P P Ramankutty N N Foley J A JA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100831 38
Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of cropland and pasture expansion across much of the developing world. Whether these new agricultural lands replace forests, degraded forests, or grasslands greatly influences the environmental consequences of expansion. Although the general pattern is known, there still is no definitive quantification of these land-cover changes. Here we analyze the rich, pan-tropical database of classified Landsat scenes ...[more]