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SUBMITTER: Kim DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5012126 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Do-Hyung DH Sexton Joseph O JO Townshend John R JR
Geophysical research letters 20150507 9
Using a consistent, 20 year series of high- (30 m) resolution, satellite-based maps of forest cover, we estimate forest area and its changes from 1990 to 2010 in 34 tropical countries that account for the majority of the global area of humid tropical forests. Our estimates indicate a 62% acceleration in net deforestation in the humid tropics from the 1990s to the 2000s, contradicting a 25% reduction reported by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Forest Resource Assessment. Net ...[more]