Forest definitions require a re-think

IF 8.1 1区地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI:10.1038/s43247-024-01779-9

Viviana Zalles, Nancy Harris, Fred Stolle, Matthew C. Hansen

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Abstract

Tracking global deforestation is key to the implementation of forest conservation and emissions reduction policies. To make tracking meaningful, the terms forest extent and deforestation must be defined in a way that is simple, transferable, and applicable with existing measurement and monitoring techniques. Tracking global deforestation is key to the implementation of forest conservation and emissions reduction policies. This Comment suggests forest extent and deforestation must be defined in a way that is simple, transferable, and applicable.

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森林定义需要重新思考

跟踪全球毁林情况是实施森林保护和减排政策的关键。为了使跟踪具有意义，必须对森林范围和森林砍伐这两个术语进行定义，使其简单、可转移并适用于现有的测量和监测技术。跟踪全球毁林情况是实施森林保护和减排政策的关键。本评论建议，必须以简单、可转移和适用的方式定义森林范围和森林砍伐。

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Communications Earth & Environment Earth and Planetary Sciences-General Earth and Planetary Sciences

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

2.50%

发文量

269

审稿时长

26 weeks

期刊介绍： Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances that bring new insight to a specialized area in Earth science, planetary science or environmental science. Communications Earth & Environment has a 2-year impact factor of 7.9 (2022 Journal Citation Reports®). Articles published in the journal in 2022 were downloaded 1,412,858 times. Median time from submission to the first editorial decision is 8 days.