Sentences with phrase «forest cover change»

The data is consistent with a recent study that developed maps for year 2000 and year 2005 forest cover, allowing researchers to measure 1990s forest cover change.

To be fair, the paper acknowledges that «[o] ur analysis ignores a critical driver of forest cover change in Southeast Asia: the expansion of oil palm plantations.»

Chart: Percent forest cover change in Indonesia and Malaysia between 2000 and 2010.

«High - Resolution Global Maps of 21st - Century Forest Cover Change.»

By utilizing remotely - sensed mangrove forest cover change data, loss of soil carbon due to mangrove habitat loss between 2000 and 2015 was 30 — 122 Tg C with > 75 % of this loss attributable to Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar.»

«In inland Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, our results show much lower deforestation rates than post-2000 period, in contrast to FAO estimates (FAO, 2010) showing rather monotonic forest cover change trends between the two periods,» the authors write.

Currently, monitoring protocols are in place for reforestation of forest cover change using satellite imagery, which will indicate how much habitat has been created.

«Losses or gains in forest cover shape many important aspects of an ecosystem including, climate regulation, carbon storage, biodiversity and water supplies, but until now there has not been a way to get detailed, accurate, satellite - based and readily available data on forest cover change from local to global scales.»

Figures for tree cover and tree cover loss and gain presented on the country and global overview pages were calculated using tabular data from a 2013 publication, «High - Resolution Global Maps of 21st - Century Forest Cover Change» by Hansen et al..

Prior to the mid-1990s, the understanding of forest change in the Congo Basin, which remains for the most part a notoriously difficult region for researchers to access, was largely based on patchy and anecdotal information without spatially explicit delineation on forests or statistically robust estimates of forest cover change.

Chart: Forest cover change in Indonesia and Malaysia between 2000 and 2010.

The 274 - page report says the forest cover change estimates are of critical importance for Central African policymakers as well as for a UN climate change mechanism known as REDD + (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which could see developed countries contribute significant funding to developing ones to safeguard their forests.

Figures for tree cover, loss, and gain presented on the country and global overview pages were calculated using tabular data from a 2013 publication, «High - Resolution Global Maps of 21st - Century Forest Cover Change» by Hansen et al..

National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) In 2015, targeted support helped finalize the forest cover change assessment for the 1990 - 2010 period.

The forest cover change statistics were for the period 1990 - 2010 were finalized and new work was launched to include the years 2000 and 2014.

Forest cover change in Indonesia and Malaysia between 2000 and 2010.

Global estimates of forest cover change are difficult to make because of conflicting definitions of what constitutes a forest, lack of satellite and radar data, and unmonitored land use change.