scholarly journals Swidden agriculture in transition and its roles in tropical forest loss and plantations expansion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Chiwei Xiao ◽  
Zhiming Feng
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Swidden Agriculture

scholarly journals Swidden agriculture in transition and its roles in tropical forest loss and plantations expansion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Chiwei Xiao ◽  
Zhiming Feng
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Swidden Agriculture ◽  
International Debate ◽  
The Tropics

Tropical forest and swidden agriculture are declining, while commercial plantation is continuously expanding. However, little is known about the mechanisms, processes and trends of the tropical forest-swidden-plantation (FSP) nexus. Global ongoing initiatives including the UN-REDD Programme, not only have repeatedly emphasized the significance of conserving forests, reforestation and afforestation, but re-pushed swidden agriculture to the forefront of a long-standing international debate of climate changes and biodiversity. Many facets limit our understanding of swidden agriculture. The lack of geographic and demographic data and their dynamics across the tropics undoubtedly further aggravate this situation since the first appeal of eradication of shifting cultivation by the FAO. Although recent studies have enriched significantly our knowledge of forest loss and plantation expansion, previous research has proceeded separately and has yet to be integrated under the umbrella of sustainable swidden agriculture. Efforts are needed to investigate the dynamics of the FSP nexus for sake of a synergetic goal of climate mitigation and poverty alleviation.

scholarly journals Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. eaax2546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean L. Maxwell ◽  
Tom Evans ◽  
James E. M. Watson ◽  
Alexandra Morel ◽  
Hedley Grantham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Carbon Accounting ◽  
Carbon Equivalent ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
Global Land ◽  
International Climate

Intact tropical forests, free from substantial anthropogenic influence, store and sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon but are currently neglected in international climate policy. We show that between 2000 and 2013, direct clearance of intact tropical forest areas accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions from all deforestation across the pantropics. However, full carbon accounting requires the consideration of forgone carbon sequestration, selective logging, edge effects, and defaunation. When these factors were considered, the net carbon impact resulting from intact tropical forest loss between 2000 and 2013 increased by a factor of 6 (626%), from 0.34 (0.37 to 0.21) to 2.12 (2.85 to 1.00) petagrams of carbon (equivalent to approximately 2 years of global land use change emissions). The climate mitigation value of conserving the 549 million ha of tropical forest that remains intact is therefore significant but will soon dwindle if their rate of loss continues to accelerate.

Endemic avifaunal biodiversity and tropical forest loss in Makira, a mountainous Pacific island

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Danielsen ◽  
Christopher E. Filardi ◽  
Knud A. Jønsson ◽  
Victor Kohaia ◽  
Niels Krabbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Pacific Island

scholarly journals Early warning tropical forest loss alerts in Peru using Landsat

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 121002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Vargas ◽  
Joselyn Montalban ◽  
Andrés Alejandro Leon
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Forest Loss

scholarly journals Warning signals of biodiversity collapse across gradients of tropical forest loss

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio de Oliveira Roque ◽  
Jorge F. S. Menezes ◽  
Tobin Northfield ◽  
Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero ◽  
Mason J. Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Warning Signals

Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 482-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Frankel Davis ◽  
Heejin Irene Koo ◽  
Jampel Dell’Angelo ◽  
Paolo D’Odorico ◽  
Lyndon Estes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Land Acquisitions ◽  
Large Scale Land

Tropical forest conversion and its impact on indigenous communities Mapping forest loss and shrinking gathering grounds in the Western Ghats, India

2020 ◽  
pp. 105133
Author(s):  
Dhanya Vijayan ◽  
Harald Kaechele ◽  
Renoy Girindran ◽  
Srikumar Chattopadhyay ◽  
Martin C. Lukas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Forest Conversion ◽  
The Western Ghats

Tropical forest loss and its multitrophic effects on insect herbivory

Ecology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 3315-3325 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos Morante-Filho ◽  
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez ◽  
Madelon Lohbeck ◽  
Teja Tscharntke ◽  
Deborah Faria
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Insect Herbivory ◽  
Forest Loss
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