Authors
Robert Tropek, Ondřej Sedláček, Jan Beck, Petr Keil, Zuzana Musilová, Irena Šímová, David Storch
Publication date
2014/5/30
Journal
Science
Volume
344
Issue
6187
Pages
981-981
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Hansen et al. (Reports, 15 November 2013, p. 850) published a high-resolution global forest map with detailed information on local forest loss and gain. We show that their product does not distinguish tropical forests from plantations and even herbaceous crops, which leads to a substantial underestimate of forest loss and compromises its value for local policy decisions.
Scholar articles
R Tropek, O Sedláček, J Beck, P Keil, Z Musilová… - Science, 2014