Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation

Forests both support biodiversity and provide a wide range of benefits to people at multiple scales. Global and national remote sensing analyses of drivers of forest change generally focus on broad-scale influences on area (composition), ignoring arrangement (configuration). To explore meso-scale re...

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Autores principales:	Nitin Bhatia, Graeme S. Cumming
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	deforestation economic indicators land-cover change land-use change landscape composition landscape configuration remote sensing Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:047b3b45a19f46c59036b6b5c959522b2021-12-02T14:21:36ZDeforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation1708-308710.5751/ES-11713-250310https://doaj.org/article/047b3b45a19f46c59036b6b5c959522b2020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art10/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Forests both support biodiversity and provide a wide range of benefits to people at multiple scales. Global and national remote sensing analyses of drivers of forest change generally focus on broad-scale influences on area (composition), ignoring arrangement (configuration). To explore meso-scale relationships, we compared forest composition and configuration to six indicators of economic growth over 23 years (1992-2015) of satellite data for 23 island nations. Based on global analyses, we expected to find clear relationships between economic growth and forest cover. Eleven islands lost 1 to 50% of forest cover, eight gained 1 to 28%, and four remained steady. Surprisingly, we found no clear relationship between economic growth trends and forest-cover change trajectories. These results differ from those of global land-cover change analyses and suggest that conservation-oriented policy and management approaches developed at both national and local scales are ignoring key meso-scale processes.Nitin BhatiaGraeme S. CummingResilience Alliancearticledeforestationeconomic indicatorsland-cover changeland-use changelandscape compositionlandscape configurationremote sensingBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 3, p 10 (2020)
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topic	deforestation economic indicators land-cover change land-use change landscape composition landscape configuration remote sensing Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	deforestation economic indicators land-cover change land-use change landscape composition landscape configuration remote sensing Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Nitin Bhatia Graeme S. Cumming Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
description	Forests both support biodiversity and provide a wide range of benefits to people at multiple scales. Global and national remote sensing analyses of drivers of forest change generally focus on broad-scale influences on area (composition), ignoring arrangement (configuration). To explore meso-scale relationships, we compared forest composition and configuration to six indicators of economic growth over 23 years (1992-2015) of satellite data for 23 island nations. Based on global analyses, we expected to find clear relationships between economic growth and forest cover. Eleven islands lost 1 to 50% of forest cover, eight gained 1 to 28%, and four remained steady. Surprisingly, we found no clear relationship between economic growth trends and forest-cover change trajectories. These results differ from those of global land-cover change analyses and suggest that conservation-oriented policy and management approaches developed at both national and local scales are ignoring key meso-scale processes.
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title	Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
title_short	Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
title_full	Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
title_fullStr	Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
title_full_unstemmed	Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
title_sort	deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/047b3b45a19f46c59036b6b5c959522b
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Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation

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