Spatial and Temporal Variations of Forest Cover in Developing Countries

doi:10.3390/su11061517

	Spatial and Temporal Variations of Forest Cover in Developing Countries
	Duan, Qianwen 1,2; Tan, Minghong 1,3
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2019-03-02
卷号	11 期号:6 页码:15
关键词	developing countries forest cover forest transition driving factors
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su11061517
通讯作者	Tan, Minghong(tanmh@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	An understanding of changes in forest cover and the drivers of forest transition (FT) contributes to the sustainable management of global forests. In this paper, we used the latest global land cover data published by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate spatiotemporal variation characteristics of forest cover in developing countries from 1992 to 2015, and then analyzed causal factors of this variation using a binary logistic regression model. Existing studies on FT are mostly based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); this study improves our understanding of FT mechanisms through the use of a new dataset. The results indicate that the forest area in developing countries decreased from 21.8 to 21.3 million km(2) from 1992-2015, and the rate of decline slowed after 2004. South America suffered the largest reduction in forest area (505,100 km(2)), whereas forest area in Africa increased slightly. By 2015, more than 80% of African countries had experienced FT, whereas only half of developing countries experienced forest expansion in South America. The variables affecting FT occurrence differed among continents. On the global scale, the remaining forest coverage and the proportion of forest exports negatively affected the likelihood of FT occurrence, whereas urbanization level had a positive effect.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41771116] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20040400]
WOS关键词	WILD COFFEE FOREST ; LAND-USE ; TRANSITION ; DEFORESTATION ; GLOBALIZATION ; REFORESTATION ; CERTIFICATION ; DRIVEN ; TRADE ; MAPS
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000465613000012
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/68620]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Tan, Minghong
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Int Coll, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Duan, Qianwen,Tan, Minghong. Spatial and Temporal Variations of Forest Cover in Developing Countries[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2019,11(6):15.
APA	Duan, Qianwen,&Tan, Minghong.(2019).Spatial and Temporal Variations of Forest Cover in Developing Countries.SUSTAINABILITY,11(6),15.
MLA	Duan, Qianwen,et al."Spatial and Temporal Variations of Forest Cover in Developing Countries".SUSTAINABILITY 11.6(2019):15.