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DOI | 10.1038/s41893-019-0310-6 |
Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin | |
Kleinschroth, Fritz1; Laporte, Nadine2; Laurance, William F.3; Goetz, Scott J.4; Ghazoul, Jaboury1,5,6 | |
2019-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
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ISSN | 2398-9629 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 2期号:7页码:628-634 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Switzerland; USA; Australia; Netherlands; Scotland |
英文摘要 | Roads facilitate development in remote forest regions, often with detrimental consequences for ecosystems. In the Congo Basin, unpaved logging roads used by timber firms, as well as paved and unpaved public roads, have expanded greatly. Comparing old (before 2003) and new (2003-2018) road datasets derived from Landsat imagery, we show that the total length of road networks inside logging concessions in Central Africa has doubled since 2003, whereas the total length of roads outside concessions has increased by 40%. We estimate that 44% of roads in logging concessions were abandoned by 2018, as compared to just 12% of roads outside concessions. Annual deforestation rates between 2000 and 2017 near (within 1 km) roads increased markedly and were highest for old roads, lowest for abandoned roads and generally higher outside logging concessions. The impact of logging on deforestation is partially ameliorated by the nearly fourfold higher rate of road abandonment inside concessions, but the overall expansion of logging roads in the Congo Basin is of broad concern for forest ecosystems, carbon storage and wildlife vulnerable to hunting. Road decommissioning after logging could play a crucial role in reducing the negative impacts of timber extraction on forest ecosystems. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000474685000021 |
WOS关键词 | TIMBER PRODUCTION ; CARBON STORAGE ; LOGGING ROADS ; LAND-USE ; DEFORESTATION ; CONSERVATION ; IMPACTS ; MANAGEMENT ; AFRICA ; COVER |
WOS类目 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/289848 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Environm Syst Sci, Zurich, Switzerland; 2.No Arizona Univ, Sch Forestry, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA; 3.James Cook Univ, Coll Sci & Engn, Ctr Trop Environm & Sustainabil Sci, Cairns, Qld, Australia; 4.No Arizona Univ, Sch Informat Comp & Cyber Syst, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA; 5.Univ Utrecht, Ecol & Biodivers Grp, Utrecht, Netherlands; 6.Univ Edinburgh, Ctr Sustainable Forests & Landscapes, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kleinschroth, Fritz,Laporte, Nadine,Laurance, William F.,et al. Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin[J]. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,2019,2(7):628-634. |
APA | Kleinschroth, Fritz,Laporte, Nadine,Laurance, William F.,Goetz, Scott J.,&Ghazoul, Jaboury.(2019).Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,2(7),628-634. |
MLA | Kleinschroth, Fritz,et al."Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 2.7(2019):628-634. |
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