Forest degradation promotes fire during drought in moist tropical forests of Ghana
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In this article, the authors explored recent drought-associated wildfires in the forest zone of Ghana to better understand the combined effects of forest degradation and drought stress on fire in forest reserves.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2019-05-15 and is currently open access. It has received 27 citations till now.read more
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Protected areas’ role in climate-change mitigation
Jerry M. Melillo,Xiaoliang Lu,David W. Kicklighter,John M. Reilly,Yongxia Cai,Andrei P. Sokolov +5 more
TL;DR: It is projected that rapid climate change, similar to high-end projections in IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, would cause the annual carbon sequestration rate in protected areas to drop to about 0.3 Pg C by 2100, which is about one fifth of the carbon sequestered by all land ecosystems annually.
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Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework
TL;DR: Ghana is experiencing an annual D&FD rate of 2%, equivalent to 135,000 hectares loss of forest cover in Ghana as mentioned in this paper, despite many forest policies and interventions to ensure sustainable management and forest use.
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UAV-based canopy textures assess changes in forest structure from long-term degradation
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to map 739 ha of degraded forests and acquire both canopy VHSR images and height model.
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Understanding the co-occurrence of tree loss and modern slavery to improve efficacy of conservation actions and policies
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between tree loss and modern slavery focusing on four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, and Mozambique was assessed. And the results provided an insight in to the cooccurrence between modern slavery and tree loss due to a number of activities that are highlighted, including mining, illegal logging and agricultural practices.
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Dynamics of active fire data and their relationship with fires in the areas of regularized indigenous lands in the Southern Amazon
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the dynamics of active fire data and their relationship with the fires in 16 Regularized Indigenous Lands (RILs) located entirely in the state of Rondonia, in the southern amazon.
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