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SUBMITTER: Pagnutti C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3794021 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pagnutti Chris C Bauch Chris T CT Anand Madhur M
PloS one 20131009 10
It is not clear whether a worldwide "forest transition" to net reforestation will ever occur, and the need to address the main driver--agriculture--is compelling. We present a mathematical model of land use dynamics based on the world food equation that explains historical trends in global land use on the millennial scale. The model predicts that a global forest transition only occurs under a small and very specific range of parameter values (and hence seems unlikely) but if it does occur, it wo ...[more]