Sentence examples for drivers of forest loss from inspiring English sources

This study is believed to advance the understanding of the socioeconomic drivers of forest loss and fragmentation.

We also investigated two key control variables: coca cultivation and eradication, both of which have been proposed as important drivers of forest loss.

Forests are storehouses of both biodiversity and C [10 13] compared to most agricultural systems, which are typically rebuked for their role as emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) from soil and drivers of forest loss [14 17].

For the non-urban planning zone, income increases, fruit consumption and infrastructure development are the primary drivers of forest loss, while infrastructure and tourism development are the major drivers of forest fragmentation.

For the urban planning zone, population pressure, economic growth and fruit consumption are the primary drivers of forest loss, while forest fragmentation is mainly driven by economic openness, cash crop consumption and environmental protection consciousness.

The direct drivers of forest loss are clearing of land for farming and harvest of fuel wood and timber, either for local consumption or for sale to the urban centers of Ambovombe and Antanimora.

Clearing land for industrial soya farming is taking over from timber as the major driver of forest loss in some regions.

Although rates of forest cover change varied by country, national population change was the strongest driver of forest loss for all countries – with a population doubling predicted to cause 2.06% annual cover loss, while doubling tea production predicted to cause 1.90%.

For this purpose, we identify the geophysical variables ("pattern drivers") that explain the spatial patterns of forest loss and fragmentation between 1976 and 1999 using both a GIS-based land-use change model (GEOMOD) and spatially explicit logistic regression.

The drivers and intensity of degradation vary by region [48], but the impact of forest loss and degradation can be felt at all scales, from global climate change to declining economic value of forest resources and biodiversity and threatened local livelihoods.

For example, the rate of forest loss is often cited as a chief driver of decline of wildlife populations (5, 6), but the impact of bushmeat hunting, also recognized to be a key driver, is rarely measured.