Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests

By Frédéric Achard, H. Eva, H. Stibig, P. Mayaux, J. Gallego, T. Richards, J. Malingreau. Science, 2002

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Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America (2008, background): “1) (Ramankutty and Foley 1999, Achard et al. 2002), and subsistence agriculture, an important part of many local economies, is one of the major contributors (Chowdhury and Turner 2006, Pan et al. 2007).”
Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore (2003, background): “, imply that the current unprecedented rate of habitat destruction in Southeast Asi”
Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries? (2010, background): “Despite the billions of dollars invested in stemming the global loss of native ecosystems (James et al. 2001; Hardner and Rice 2002), ecosystem degradation continues (Achard et al. 2002; Balmford et al. 2002).”
Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. An editorial essay (2005, background): “The combined effects of clear-cutting, forest regrowth on abandoned land, and logging may have released from 0.8 ± 0.2 to 2.2 ± 0.8 Pg C yr−1 in the 1990s, 10–25% of global, human-induced emissions (Houghton, 2003; Achard et al., 2002; DeFries et al., 2002).”
Reference scenarios for deforestation and forest degradation in support of REDD: a review of data and methods (2008, methodology): “The European Union’s Joint Research Center in its most recent global assessment used coarse resolution satellite data from 1990–1997 to create a base map upon which experts selected regions of greatest deforestation, ‘hot spots’, across the tropics (Achard et al 2002, Achard et al 2004).”
Quantifying changes in the rates of forest clearing in Indonesia from 1990 to 2005 using remotely sensed data sets (2009, methodology): “While the use of satellitebased observations of the earth surface for monitoring tropical deforestation is well established (Skole and Tucker 1993, INPE 2002, Achard et al 2002), consistent and timely monitoring of areas with frequent cloud cover such as Indonesia has not been implemented.”
Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region (2009, neutral): “, 2005), and higher than those observed in other tropical forest regions (Achard et al., 2002; Brook et al., 2006).”
When family matters: an analysis of Thelotremataceae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) as bioindicators of ecological continuity in tropical forests (2008, methodology): “Tropical rain forests continue to be deforested at alarming rates (FAO 1981; Myers 1991; Skole and Tucker 1993; Achard et al. 2002; ITTO 2002), contributing not only to regional and global climate change (Shukla et al.”
Assessing the accuracy of land cover change with imperfect ground reference data (2010, background): “For example, Skole and Tucker (1993) highlighted substantial, ~50%, over-estimation of deforestation arising through the use of coarse spatial resolution data sets and Achard et al. (2002) suggest that some estimates of deforestation rates in the humid tropics may have been exaggerated by ~23%.”
AVIAN EXTINCTIONS FROM TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FORESTS (2004, background): “INTRODUCTION Despite extremely high species diversity and endemism of existing tropical forests, 16 million ha are lost annually (Achard et al. 2002).”
Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster. (2004, background): “Deforestation is particularly severe in Southeast Asia, where natural habitats, such as lowland rain forests, are being destroyed at relative rates that are higher than those of other tropical regions [ 2 ].”
Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions (2012, methodology): “As sensitivity analyses (see below), we also ran alternative deforestation scenarios, based on current rates of deforestation as estimated by remote sensing studies [22, 23], which yields 49% and 38% loss for 2000-2100 for tropical and non-tropical regions respectively, and a scenario where protecte”