The impact of population growth on natural resources and farmers' capacity to adapt to climate change in low-income countries

MM Maja, SF Ayano - Earth Systems and Environment, 2021 - Springer
Population growth and natural resources are intricately linked and play role in climate
disruption and farmers' ability to adapt to climate change especially in develo** countries …

Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation

B Güneralp, S Lwasa, H Masundire… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Africa, a continent exceptionally rich in biodiversity, is rapidly urbanizing. Africa's
urbanization is manifest in the growth of its megacities as well as that of its smaller towns …

Map** the spatial heterogeneity of global land use and land cover from 2020 to 2100 at a 1 km resolution

T Zhang, C Cheng, X Wu - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
A fine global future land use/land cover (LULC) is critical for demonstrating the geographic
heterogeneity of earth system dynamics and human-earth interaction. In this study, we …

Map** tree density at a global scale

TW Crowther, HB Glick, KR Covey, C Bettigole… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the
terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a …

Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing

A Tyukavina, MC Hansen, P Potapov, D Parker… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
A regional assessment of forest disturbance dynamics from 2000 to 2014 was performed for
the Congo Basin countries using time-series satellite data. Area of forest loss was estimated …

Tropical dry forest dynamics in the context of climate change: syntheses of drivers, gaps, and management perspectives

ZG Siyum - Ecological Processes, 2020 - Springer
This review attempts to synthesize the available literature on tropical dry forests and their
dynamics in the context of climate change and thereby identifies possible gaps and priority …

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene

Y Malhi, TA Gardner, GR Goldsmith… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

[HTML][HTML] Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries

S Sloan, JA Sayer - Forest Ecology and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 shows that deforestation has
slowed and afforestation has increased globally during 1990–2015. Planted forests have …

[HTML][HTML] Deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion in Ghana's forest reserves

EO Acheampong, CJ Macgregor, S Sloan, J Sayer - Scientific African, 2019 - Elsevier
Ghana's protected forest reserves have suffered average annual deforestation rates of 0.7%,
0.5%, 0.4%, and 0.6% for the periods 1990–2000, 2000–2005, 2005–2010 and 2010–2015 …

The carbon footprint of traditional woodfuels

R Bailis, R Drigo, A Ghilardi, O Masera - Nature Climate Change, 2015 - nature.com
Over half of all wood harvested worldwide is used as fuel, supplying∼ 9% of global primary
energy. By depleting stocks of woody biomass, unsustainable harvesting can contribute to …