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SUBMITTER: Grantham HS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7723057 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201208 1
Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high ecological integrity, yet the scale and degree of forest modification remain poorly quantified and mapped. By integrating data on observed and inferred human pressures and an index of lost connectivity, we generate a globally consistent, continuous index of forest condition as determined by the degree of anthropogenic modificatio ...[more]