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How do we measure and monitor forest degradation

Year: 2008

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Forest degradation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). In the Brazilian Amazon forest, degradation is responsible for 20% of total emissions (Asner et al. 2005). In Indonesia, the forest stock is decreasing by 6% a year and forest degradation is responsible for two thirds of this, whereas deforestation is responsible for only a third (Marklund and Schoene 2006). In Africa the annual rate of forest degradation is almost 50% of the annual rate of deforestation (Lambin et al. 2003).

Source: CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)

Authors: Daniel Murdiyarso, Margaret Skutsch, Manuel R. Guariguata, Markku Kanninen, C. Luttrell, P.A. Verweij, Osvaldo Stella

Institution: CGIAR

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1474325834

FWCI: 3.09

Cites: 79

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10