Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s

By Ruth S. DeFries, Richard A. Houghton, Matthew C. Hansen, Christopher B. Field, D. Skole, John R. Townshend. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. An editorial essay (2005, background): “The most recent and thorough deforestation studies (PRODES; DeFries et al., 2002; Curran et al., 2004) offer no suggestion that deforestation is decreasing, either of its own accord or in consequence of policy interventions; to the contrary, increasing global integration of markets and demand for ag”
Reducing emissions from deforestation - the "combined incentives" mechanism and empirical simulations. (2009, background): “Home to 50–66% of Earth’s species (Wilson, 1999; The Royal Society, 2003), these forests are being converted at a rate of between 6 and 12 million hectares per year (Achard et al., 2002; DeFries et al., 2002; FAO, 2006).”
Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, background): “Previous estimates for carbon losses from deforestation ranged from 306 to 698 Pg C y−1 for the 1990s, and 322 to 845 Pg C yr−1 for (part of) the 2000s (DeFries et al 2002, Baccini et al 2012, Eva et al 2012, Harris et al 2012, Houghton 2012, Achard et al 2014, Tyukavina et al 2015).”
Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change (2014, background): “Estimates of forest extent or deforestation are often derived via remote sensing (cf. Achard et al., 2002; DeFries et al., 2002; Hansen, Stehman, & Potapov, 2010), and area estimation also plays a prominent role in ongoing efforts to establish scientifically valid protocols for forest change…”
Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data (2008, methodology): “Various remote-sensing-based methods have been prototyped within this biome (5, 7–11) and combined with information on carbon stocks to estimate carbon emissions (8, 12, 13).”
When family matters: an analysis of Thelotremataceae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) as bioindicators of ecological continuity in tropical forests (2008, background): “2002; ITTO 2002), contributing not only to regional and global climate change (Shukla et al. 1990; Still et al. 1999; Malhi and Grace 2000; Fearnside 2000, 2001; Lawton et al. 2001; Defries et al. 2002; Fearnside and Laurance 2004) but also the extinction of thousands of species (Lewin 1986; Raup 19”
Using temperature‐dependent changes in leaf scaling relationships to quantitatively account for thermal acclimation of respiration in a coupled global climate–vegetation model (2008, background): “Thus, if land clearance in the tropics (DeFries et al., 2002; Laporte et al., 2007) results in replacement of low N-concentration tropical trees (Reich, 2005; Townsend et al., 2007) by species with high tissue N concentrations (e.g. pasture, cash crops and/or faster growing tree species), we would…”
Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges (2012, methodology): “DeFries et al. (2002) calculated global tropical forest change based on Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data along with regional rates of changes estimated from Landsat data.”
Land cover 2.0 (2018, background): “Land cover informs the functional relationship between terrain, climate and soils, providing biophysical insights into the environment and drivers of change (DeFries et al. 2002; Townshend et al. 2012; Franklin and Wulder 2002; Andrew, Wulder, and Nelson 2014).”
Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s (2010, background): “Thesenatural ecosystemsprovide locally and globally important services including storing of much of Earth’s biomass carbon, serving as habitats for endangered plants and animals, preservingmajor elements of the global hydrological cycle, and protecting massive watersheds (34, 44, 47, 48).”