If tropical farmers cannot be provided with sustainable landâuse systems, which address their subsistence needs and keep them gainfully employed, tropical forests will continue to disappear. We looked at the ability of economic landâuse diversification â with reforestation of tropical âwastelandsâ as a key activity â to halt deforestation at the farm level.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Ecuador
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014
The frequency and extent of humanâinduced landâcover changes is escalating worldwide. Recurrent turnover of landâcover types will affect ecosystems over and above major, oneâtime changes (eg deforestation). Here, we show how a deeper appreciation of the temporal dynamics of landâcover change is needed to understand its effects on ecosystems.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2012
We used landâcover maps and active fire detection based on satellite imagery to evaluate the rates and spatial distribution of peatland deforestation in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010. Over this time period, the proportion of forest cover in the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo fell from 77% to 36%. After two decades of extensive deforestation (31 000 km²; 4.9% yrâ»Â¹) strongly associated with fire activity, Sumatra has been left with just 28% of its historical forested peatlands.
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