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A new circa 2007 biomass map for China differs significantly from existing maps

The forest area of China is the fifth largest of any country, and unlike in many other countries, in recent decades its area has been increasing. However, there are substantial differences in estimates of the ...

Wenquan Dong, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Maurizio Santoro, Man Chen… in Scientific Data (2024)

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Protected areas reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance woody growth across African woodlands

Protected areas are increasingly promoted for their capacity to sequester carbon, alongside biodiversity benefits. However, we have limited understanding of whether they are effective at reducing deforestation...

Iain M. McNicol, Aidan Keane, Neil D. Burgess… in Communications Earth & Environment (2023)

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Author Correction: Quasi-experimental analysis of new mining developments as a driver of deforestation in Zambia

Jonathan Morley, Graeme Buchanan, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Aidan Keane in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Forest expansion in abandoned agricultural lands has limited effect to offset carbon emissions from Central-North Spain

We assessed the process of carbon (C) accumulation as a consequence of forest expansion in abandoned agricultural lands over the period 1977–2017 in a vast (9.4 million ha) area of Mediterranean continental en...

Eduardo Velázquez, Carolina Martínez-Jaraíz… in Regional Environmental Change (2022)

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Quasi-experimental analysis of new mining developments as a driver of deforestation in Zambia

Mining is a vital part of the global, and many national, economies. Mining also has the potential to drive extensive land cover change, including deforestation, with impacts reaching far from the mine itself. ...

Jonathan Morley, Graeme Buchanan, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Aidan Keane in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Author Correction: Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

Bart Crezee, Greta C. Dargie, Corneille E. N. Ewango… in Nature Geoscience (2022)

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Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

The world’s largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However, there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland’s distribution and the amount of carbon stored in ...

Bart Crezee, Greta C. Dargie, Corneille E. N. Ewango… in Nature Geoscience (2022)

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Map** native and non-native vegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado using freely available satellite products

Native vegetation across the Brazilian Cerrado is highly heterogeneous and biodiverse and provides important ecosystem services, including carbon and water balance regulation, however, land-use changes have be...

Kennedy Lewis, Fernanda de V. Barros, Marcio B. Cure… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest

The increased demand for palm oil has led to an expansion of oil palm concessions in the tropics, and the clearing of abundant forest as a result. However, concessions are typically incompletely planted to var...

Keiko Nomura, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Genevieve Patenaude… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Congo Basin peatlands: threats and conservation priorities

The recent publication of the first spatially explicit map of peatlands in the Cuvette Centrale, central Congo Basin, reveals it to be the most extensive tropical peatland complex, at ca. 145,500 km². With an est...

Greta C. Dargie, Ian T. Lawson… in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for G… (2019)

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Carbon losses from deforestation and widespread degradation offset by extensive growth in African woodlands

Land use carbon fluxes are major uncertainties in the global carbon cycle. This is because carbon stocks, and the extent of deforestation, degradation and biomass growth remain poorly resolved, particularly in...

Iain M. McNicol, Casey M. Ryan, Edward T. A. Mitchard in Nature Communications (2018)

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Understanding ‘saturation’ of radar signals over forests

There is an urgent need to quantify anthropogenic influence on forest carbon stocks. Using satellite-based radar imagery for such purposes has been challenged by the apparent loss of signal sensitivity to chan...

Neha Joshi, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Matthew Brolly… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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A small subset of protected areas are a highly significant source of carbon emissions

Protected areas (PAs) aim to protect multiple ecosystem services. However, not all are well protected. For the first time, using published carbon and forest loss maps, we estimate carbon emissions in large for...

Murray B. Collins, Edward T. A. Mitchard in Scientific Reports (2017)

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Material flows accounting for Scotland shows the merits of a circular economy and the folly of territorial carbon reporting

It is essential that the human race limits the environmental damage created by our consumption. A realistic pathway to limiting consumption would be to transition to a system where materials are conserved and ...

Kimberley Pratt, Michael Lenaghan, Edward T. A. Mitchard in Carbon Balance and Management (2016)