Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are located in regions with alternating wet and dry seasons, with dry seasons that last several months or more. By the end of the 21st century …
Seasonally dry tropical forests are distributed across Latin America and the Caribbean and are highly threatened, with less than 10% of their original extent remaining in many …
JF Bastin, N Berrahmouni, A Grainger, D Maniatis… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Dryland biomes cover two-fifths of Earth's land surface, but their forest area is poorly known. Here, we report an estimate of global forest extent in dryland biomes, based on analyzing …
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …
Tropical dry woodlands are rapidly being lost to agricultural expansion, but how deforestation dynamics play out in these woodlands remains poorly understood. We have …
Having the ability to make accurate assessments of above ground biomass (AGB) at high spatial resolution is invaluable for the management of dryland forest resources in areas at …
AP Jacobson, J Riggio, A M. Tait, J EM Baillie - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Habitat loss and fragmentation due to human activities is the leading cause of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Protected areas are the primary response to this …
We developed a global, 30-m resolution dataset of percent tree cover by rescaling the 250- m MOderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Continuous Fields …
Abstract The Caatinga Domain (CD) in northeastern Brazil harbors the largest and most continuous expanse of the seasonally dry tropical forest and woodland biome (SDTFW) in …