Deforestation and Reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001–2010)
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...SS can also occur in areas with relatively low productivity, such as those present at high elevations (e.g. cooler temperatures, steeper slopes), that are not appropriate for large-scale mechanized agriculture (Aide et al., 2013)....
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...In summary, despite the reduction in the annual net loss of old-growth forests observed in several tropical developing countries (Aide & Grau, 2004; Aide et al., 2013; Hansen et al., Biological Reviews 92 (2017) 326–340 © 2015 Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013), the frequency and intensity of…...
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...…shaping SS are indirect consequences of proximate (e.g. economic activity, policy, road culture, social institutions, governance) and underlying societal (e.g. population density, percentage of economically active population) drivers (e.g. Ostrom, 2009; Aide et al., 2013; Quezada et al., 2014)....
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...…occurs mainly in areas of high human population density, where forests have been extensively transformed into agricultural landscapes under the effect of societal drivers (e.g. increasing global demand for food), but where migration of people has led to the abandonment of lands (Aide et al., 2013)....
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...Unfortunately, despite this research effort, the intermingled biophysical and societal factors and drivers that govern the probability of abandoned private lands experiencing SS are often complex and poorly understood (Lambin & Meyfroidt, 2011; Aide et al., 2013; Ellis, 2013)....
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...We used the Random Forests (RF) tree-based classifier (Breiman 2001), implemented using the R statistical program and the ‘randomForest’ package (v. 4.6–2)....
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...Although rural population changes can impact land change (Carr 2009, Izquierdo et al. 2011, Robson & Berkes 2011), other studies using our land-change dataset, and which included rural population change at the municipality scale in Mexico (Bonilla-Moheno et al. in press) and Bolivia (Redo et al.…...
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...We used Random Forests (RF) regression (Svetnik et al. 2003) to determine which environmental or population variables best explained the variation in woody vegetation change....
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