Dry Forests

Mapping continuous fields of tree and shrub cover across the Gran Chaco using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-1 data
Tropical dry forests and savannas provide important ecosystem services and harbor high biodiversity, yet are globally under pressure …
Matthias Baumann, Christian Levers, Leandro Macchi, Hendrik Bluhm, Björn Waske, Ignacio Gasparri, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012
The dry forests of Latin America are among the most dynamic deforestation frontiers in the world and are important carbon and …
Matthias Baumann, Christoph Israel, María Piquer-Rodríguez, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, José Norberto Volante, Tobias Kuemmerle
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The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco
South America’s tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and …
Verena Fehlenberg, Matthias Baumann, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, María Piquer-Rodríguez, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, Tobias Kuemmerle
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