High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation

doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06642-z

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	High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation
	Wang,Yunxia; Hollingsworth,Peter M.; Zhai,Deli; West,Christopher D.; Green,Jonathan M. H.; Chen,Huafang; Hurni,Kaspar; Su,Yufang; Warren-Thomas,Eleanor; Xu,Jianchu; Ahrends,Antje
	2023
发表期刊	NATURE
ISSN	1476-4687
摘要	Understanding the effects of cash crop expansion on natural forest is of fundamental importance. However, for most crops there are no remotely sensed global maps, and global deforestation impacts are estimated using models and extrapolations. Natural rubber is an example of a principal commodity for which deforestation impacts have been highly uncertain, with estimates differing more than fivefold. Here we harnessed Earth observation satellite data and cloud computing to produce high-resolution maps of rubber (10 m pixel size) and associated deforestation (30 m pixel size) for Southeast Asia. Our maps indicate that rubber-related forest loss has been substantially underestimated in policy, by the public and in recent reports. Our direct remotely sensed observations show that deforestation for rubber is at least twofold to threefold higher than suggested by figures now widely used for setting policy. With more than 4 million hectares of forest loss for rubber since 1993 (at least 2 million hectares since 2000) and more than 1 million hectares of rubber plantations established in Key Biodiversity Areas, the effects of rubber on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia could be extensive. Thus, rubber deserves more attention in domestic policy, within trade agreements and in incoming due-diligence legislation.
关键词	MAINLAND SOUTHEAST-ASIA NATURAL-RUBBER HEVEA-BRASILIENSIS SOUTHWEST CHINA COLLECT EARTH GOOGLE EARTH BOOM CROPS LAND-COVER EXPANSION PLA
DOI	10.1038/s41586-023-06642-z
WOS记录号	WOS:001092371400012
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/74871
专题	中国科学院昆明植物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang,Yunxia,Hollingsworth,Peter M.,Zhai,Deli,et al. High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation[J]. NATURE,2023.
APA	Wang,Yunxia.,Hollingsworth,Peter M..,Zhai,Deli.,West,Christopher D..,Green,Jonathan M. H..,...&Ahrends,Antje.(2023).High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation.NATURE.
MLA	Wang,Yunxia,et al."High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation".NATURE (2023).

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