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Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research
- Remote Sens. Environ. 2014
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BIOFRAG – a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation
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What drives deforestation and what stops it? A meta-analysis of spatially explicit econometric studies
, 2014
"... Abstract We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a metaanalysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based on the signs and significance of 5909 coe ..."
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Abstract We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a metaanalysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based on the signs and significance of 5909 coefficients in 554 multivariate analyses. We find that forests are more likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable climatological and topographic conditions, or due to lower costs of clearing forest and transporting products to market. Timber activity, land tenure security, and community demographics do not show a consistent association with either higher or lower deforestation. Population is consistently associated with greater deforestation, and poverty is consistently associated with lower deforestation, but in both cases endogeneity makes a causal link difficult to infer. Promising approaches for stopping deforestation include reducing the intrusion of road networks into remote forested areas; targeting protected areas to regions where forests face higher threat; tying rural income support to the maintenance of forest resources through payments for ecosystem services; and insulating the forest frontier from the price effects of demand for agricultural commodities. JEL Codes: Q15,Q23,Q24
Article Meeting Earth Observation Requirements for Global Agricultural Monitoring: An Evaluation of the Revisit Capabilities of Current and Planned Moderate Resolution Optical Earth Observing Missions
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The Tropical managed forests observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests
- Appl. Veg. Sci
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Article Combining Satellite Data and Community-Based Observations for Forest Monitoring
, 2014
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Review A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia
, 2014
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deposition in the Andes of southeastern Ecuador
, 2014
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"... Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Glaring biases, gaps, and uncertainties in plant occurrence information rema ..."
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Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Glaring biases, gaps, and uncertainties in plant occurrence information remain a central problem in ecology and conservation, but these limitations have never been assessed globally. In this synthesis, we propose a conceptual framework for analyzing information biases, gaps and uncertainties along taxonomic, geographical, and temporal dimensions and apply it to all c. 370,000 species of land plants. To this end, we integrated 120 million point-occurrence records with independent databases on plant taxonomy, distributions, and conservation status. We find that different data limitations are prevalent in each dimension. Different information metrics are largely uncorrelated, and filtering out specific limitations would usually lead to extreme trade-offs for other information metrics. In light of these multidimensional data limitations, we critically discuss prospects for global plant ecological and biogeographical research, monitoring and conservation, and outline critical next steps towards more effective information usage and mobilization. We provide an empirical baseline for evaluating and improving global floristic knowledge and our conceptual framework can be applied to the study of other hyperdiverse clades.
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 6, 339–352, 2014
, 2014
"... www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/6/339/2014/ doi:10.5194/essd-6-339-2014 © Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Deriving a per-field land use and land cover map in an agricultural mosaic catchment ..."
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www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/6/339/2014/ doi:10.5194/essd-6-339-2014 © Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Deriving a per-field land use and land cover map in an agricultural mosaic catchment
