This study aims to evaluate the direct effects of anthropogenic deforestation on simulated climate at two contrasting periods in the Holocene, ∼ 6 and ∼ 0.2 k BP in Europe. We apply We apply the Rossby Centre regional climate model RCA3, a regional climate model with 50 km spatial resolution, for both time periods, considering three alternative descriptions of the past vegetation: (i) potential...

Terminos Lagoon ecosystem is the largest fluvial-lagoon estuarine system in the country and one of the most important reserves of coastal flora and fauna in Mexico. Since the seventies, part of the main infrastructure for country's oil extraction is located in this area. Its high biodiversity has motivated different type of studies including deforestation processes and land use planning. In thi...

Community forestry, which is how local communities are involved in forest conservation and utilization activities, an important forestry program developing tropical countries. We evaluated the importance of geographical factors community characteristics deforestation forests between 2000 2019 buffer zone Inlay Lake Biosphere Reserve, Myanmar, using a mixed-effects logistic regression model. Dis...

August 2007 | Volume 5 | Issue 8 | e216 No Forest Left Behind Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Guy Midgley, Jonah Busch, Lee Hannah, Russell A. Mittermeier New research indicates that slowing tropical deforestation may play a much larger role in mitigating climate change than previously believed [1,2]. Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation are expected to increase atmos...

Researchers have failed to reach on a consensus about the impact of different factors on tropical deforestation. Such failure has its origins in the problems with: deforestation data, hypothesizing the one-way effect of explanatory variables on deforestation, and estimation techniques. In this paper, these problems are dealt with. The data problem is taken care of by classifying the data on rat...

Urbanization, armed conflict, and deforestation in African countries have increased the risk of zoonotic infections, which requires a One Health approach focused on environment, animal health human health.

August 2007 | Volume 5 | Issue 8 | e216 No Forest Left Behind Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Guy Midgley, Jonah Busch, Lee Hannah, Russell A. Mittermeier New research indicates that slowing tropical deforestation may play a much larger role in mitigating climate change than previously believed [1,2]. Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation are expected to increase atmos...

The Rio Cajarí Extractive Reserve (RCER) is a sustainable use protected area located in Southern Amapá state, Brazil. This protected area is home to traditional agro-extractive families, but has been increasingly invaded by commercial agriculture producers. In this work, we test the hypothesis that the RCER implementation has distinctly affected spatial patterns of deforestation and rates of ba...