A Synthesis of Information on Rapid Land-cover Change for the Period 1981–2000

By E. Lepers, Eric F. Lambin, A. Janetos, Ruth S. DeFries, Frédéric Achard, Navin Ramankutty, R. Scholes. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Beyond biofuels: assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass: a conceptual and empirical contribution to sustainable management of global resources. (2012, background): “The biggest cause of deforestation – and consequently loss of terrestrial biodiversity -- has been agricultural expansion (Lepers et al. 2005, MEA, 2005, Haines-Young, 2009).”
• Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation (2014, background): “This is particularly true in tropical areas with rapidly growing economies such as Southeast Asia and the Brazilian Amazon, where land-use change is fragmenting natural habitat rapidly (Lepers et al., 2005).”
• Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands (2013, background): “Our results show that rates of grassland conversion to corn/soy (1.0 – 5.4% annually) across a signi fi cant portion of the US Western Corn Belt are comparable to deforestation rates in Brazil, Malaysia, and Indonesia (37, 38), countries in which tropical forests were the principal sources of new agr”
• The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment (2011, unknown): “The study was part of a UN effort to evaluate the impact of changes of ecosystem services on human well-being (MA 2005b; Lepers et al. 2005).”
• Increasing world consumption of beef as a driver of regional and global change: A call for policy action based on evidence from Queensland (Australia), Colombia and Brazil (2009, background): “In Queensland (northern Australia), a global deforestation hotspot (Lepers et al., 2005), there has been broad-scale conversion of dry forests to exotic cattle pastures over the past 50 years (McAlpine et al., 2002; Seabrook et al., 2006).”
• Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “Thus, while rapid clearing of tropical forests and savannas for agriculture continues (92), these rates are small compared to those affecting temperate latitudes between 1850 and 1950 (Figure 2).”
• Pan-tropical monitoring of deforestation (2007, methodology): “A global map of the main deforestation fronts in the 1980s and 1990s has been produced by Lepers et al (2005).”
• An incentive mechanism for reducing emissions from conversion of intact and non-intact forests (2007, background): “This global pattern is the sum of two opposite trends, with land area under agricultural use increasing and land area under forest use decreasing (Lepers et al. 2005).”
• Extinction risk in cloud forest fragments under climate change and habitat loss (2013, background): “However, their interactive effects on populations are still not well understood (Duraiappah et al., 2005; Lepers et al., 2005; Parry, 2007; Mantyka-Pringle et al., 2011).”
• Carbon monitoring system flux estimation and attribution: impact of ACOS-GOSAT XCO2 sampling on the inference of terrestrial biospheric sources and sinks (2014, background): “The South American tropical region is home to one of the world’s largest tropical rainforests and is experiencing rapid land-cover change (e.g. Lepers et al., 2005).”
• Some challenges in global land cover mapping : An assessment of agreement and accuracy in existing 1 km datasets (2008, background): “There are examples for integrating global datasets of different origin with historical map information and statistical information to derive a consensus perspective for identifying change hot spots (Lepers et al., 2005).”
• The Global Supply and Demand for Agricultural Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm in the Making? AAEA Presidential Address (2010, background): “To compound matters, water, a key input into agricultural production, is rapidly diminishing in availability in many parts of the world (McKinsey & Co 2009), and many soils are degrading (Lepers et al. 2005).”
• Land-use Pressure and a Transition to Forest-cover Loss in the Eastern United States (2010, unknown): “Systematic regional observations of land-change trends and their consequences have been lacking (Lepers et al. 2005), indicating a need for improved monitoring and analysis of how land is used and altered by human activities.”