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A report to the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO) in support of sampling study for National Forestry Resources Monitoring and Assessment (NAFORMA) in Tanzania
Erkki Tomppo,Matti Katila,Kai Mäkisara,Jouni Per ̈asaari,Rogers Ernest Malimbwi,Nurudin Chamuya,Jared Otieno,Søren Dalsgaard,Mikko Leppanen +8 more
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Erkki Tomppo1, Matti Katila1, Kai Mäkisara1, Jouni Peräsaari1, Rogers Malimbwi2, Nurudin Chamuya3, Jared Otieno3, Søren Dalsgaard4, Mikko Leppänen5 1 Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland PO Box 18 (Jokiniemenkuja 1) FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland tel: +358 10 211 2170, fax: 358 10 211 2202 email erkki.tomppo@metla.fi 2 Sokoine University of Agriculture, the United Rebublic of Tanzania 3 Forest and Beekeeping Division of Ministry of Natural Resources, the United Rebublic of Tanzania 4 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dar es Salaam 5 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Romeread more
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Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change
Pontus Olofsson,Giles M. Foody,Martin Herold,Stephen V. Stehman,Curtis E. Woodcock,Michael A. Wulder +5 more
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Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation
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TL;DR: This work uses recently available data on infrastructure, land cover and human access into natural areas to construct a globally standardized measure of the cumulative human footprint on the terrestrial environment at 1 km2 resolution from 1993 to 2009.
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An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries
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TL;DR: It is reported that tree species richness in production forests shows positive to positively hump-shaped relationships with multiple ecosystem services, including production of tree biomass, soil carbon storage, berry production and game production potential.
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