with thick leathery leaves and shallow root systems. The nutritive, food-gathering roots are usually no more than a few centimetres deep. Rain falling on the forests drips down from the leaves and trickles down tree trunks to the ground, although a great deal of water is lost toleaftranspir...
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in Reports from the Technical Panels of the 2nd Greenhouse Gas Working Group of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (eds Killeen, T. J. & Goon, J.) 29–64 (RSPO, 2013). Giri, C. et al. Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data...
With nearly half of these plantations been established in the last two decades, the young forests' contribution to global C sink has been greatly acknowledged (Pan et al., 2011; Poorter et al., 2016; Chazdon et al., 2016). As the world leader in forest planting, China has launched the...
In comparison to the CAFC map, a regional map derived from MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tended to underestimate forest cover, while the Global Forest Change product matched well. The Global Forest Resources Assessments, based on individual country reports, overestimated forest cover by 1.5 to ...
Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost completely from the European temperate forest region. Poor management practices, often triggered by socioeconomic and institutional change, are the main causes of loss. Recent trends in old-growth forest cover in Rom...
FAO, in cooperation with its member countries, has monitored the world's forests at five to ten year intervals since 1946. These global assessments provide... A Perlis 被引量: 570发表: 2001年 A global forest growing stock, biomass and carbon map based on FAO statistics One of the few ma...
We found that 75.1% of global forests experienced a decline in fragmentation during the first 20 years of the 21stcentury, which suggested that most global forest landscapes were generally improving. However, forest fragmentation exhibited divergent patterns in different regions of the world. On the ...
orbiotype. There is also no agreement on the boundaries of assemblages—say, where theforestbiome ends and the prairie biome begins. Nonetheless, especially when these approaches are applied globally, as with theecoregionsused by theWorld Wide Fund for Nature(World Wildlife Fund, WWF), they provid...
world“ (Lee 2009). They provide banks of knowledge for complex ecosystems and blueprints for natural forest processes; provide options for future generations, an important part of our natural heritage to pass on for their enjoyment; high biodiversity; they reflect well on our values and ethics ...