Publication Date:
2014-05-31
Description:
Hansen et al. (Reports, 15 November 2013, p. 850) published a high-resolution global forest map with detailed information on local forest loss and gain. We show that their product does not distinguish tropical forests from plantations and even herbaceous crops, which leads to a substantial underestimate of forest loss and compromises its value for local policy decisions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tropek, Robert -- Sedlacek, Ondrej -- Beck, Jan -- Keil, Petr -- Musilova, Zuzana -- Simova, Irena -- Storch, David -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):981. doi: 10.1126/science.1248753.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Environmental Science (Biogeography), University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. robert.tropek@gmail.com. ; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Vinicna 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic. ; Department of Environmental Science (Biogeography), University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. ; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University in Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jilska 1, CZ-110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic. ; Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland. ; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Vinicna 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic. Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University in Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jilska 1, CZ-110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876487" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Conservation of Natural Resources
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*Geographic Mapping
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*Maps as Topic
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*Trees
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
