The constitution of Bhutan also mandates a minimum of 60 percent forest cover all time. The pristine forest of Bhutan is, however, threatened by yearly forest fire that burns down thousands of acres of forest every year. The forest department recently revealed that this year along, within around...
About 73% of Bhutan's land area is currently under forest coverage, and the forest occupies a potentially important position in promoting rural livelihood and thereby alleviating the poverty of people living in and around the forest. This study uses data from the Bhutan Living Standard Survey to...
Both approaches provide spatially explicit estimates with wall to wall coverage, enabling the understanding of dynamics beyond point-based estimates [4, 19]. The reliable remote-sensing-based visual indicators and systematic information systems could also extend objectivity to verification and third-party...
About 73% of Bhutan’s land area is currently under forest coverage, and the forest occupies a potentially important position in promoting rural livelihood and thereby alleviating the poverty of people living in and around the forest. This study uses data from the Bhutan Living Standard Survey to...
The genome coverage and completeness were determined using BUSCO [36]. Furthermore, the genome assembly completeness was analyzed using the BUSCO tool [37]. The annotation of the genome and taxonomic identification was conducted using prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline (PGAP) and the average ...
Vegetation growth distribution, coverage, and the context of the vegetation canopy could influence the fuel of the fire [40]. The vegetation distribution situation is reflected using an index known as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) [41,42]. Climate not only affects forest fires but...
To achieve the dual goal of poverty alleviation and ecological restoration, the policy of ecological forest rangers (EFRs) was implemented in rural poverty-stricken areas in China, where local residents commonly depend on nearby forest resources for livelihoods. This study aimed to analyze the short...
The largest patch index is an indicator of the compact coverage of forest habitats within the largest polygon identified for 1977 and 2020. According to the spatial analysis results, this percentage slightly increased from 94 to 97, showing that the compact forest zone belts still feature the oute...