Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

By Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman, Peter V. Potapov, Thomas R. Loveland, John R. Townshend, Ruth S. DeFries, Kyle Pittman, B. Arunarwati, F. Stolle, M. Steininger and 2 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, background): “Previous estimates of deforestation ranged from 3.74 to 4.09 million ha yr−1 for the 1990s, and 3.28 to 4.87 million ha yr−1 for (part of) the 2000s (DeFries et al 2002, Hansen et al 2008, 2010, Eva et al 2012, Harris et al 2012, Achard et al 2014, FAO 2015).”
Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands (2013, background): “…(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 agricultural land, globally, during the 1980s and 1990s (39).”
Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges (2010, background): “…Tanzanian National Forestry Assessment, and the carbon management and measurement projects that will be supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, additional relevant data may come from global sources on deforestation and carbon stocks (Gibbs et al., 2007; Hansen et al., 2008; Schmitt et al., 2009).”
Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge (2015, positive): “Tropical forests are seriously threatened by habitat fragmentation, forest degradation and conversion of natural forest to agro-industrial plantations or arable land (Dirzo and Raven, 2003; Hansen et al., 2008, 2010).”
Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges (2012, methodology): “More recently Landsat samples combined with wall-to-wall data-sets have been used to provide estimates of forest loss in the tropics (Hansen et al. 2008) and subsequently for the globe (Hansen et al. 2010).”
Quantification of global gross forest cover loss (2010, background): “Area of forest cover and GFCL for the boreal (17), temperate (18), dry tropics, and humid tropics (19) are presented here as a global synthesis.”
Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012 (2015, positive): “The use of a stratified estimator (Cochran 1977) substantially reduces standard errors relative to what would have resulted without stratification (Hansen et al 2008, Broich et al 2009).”
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics (2012, background): “In fact, relative to a baseline of 1900 the majority of tropical forest has already been felled, with the rate of deforestation accelerating in the last two decades (Holmes 2002; FWI/GFW 2002; Hansen et al. 2008).”
Combined effects of climate and land‐use change on the future of humid tropical forests (2010, methodology): “We integrated recent global deforestation and logging maps derived from 2000 to 2005 satellite imagery of clear-cutting (Hansen et al. 2008) and high-resolution satellite data (Asner et al.”