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Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps
Remotely sensed maps of global forest extent are widely used for conservation assessment and planning. Yet, there is increasing recognition that these efforts must now include elements of forest quality for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Such data are not yet available globally. Here we introd...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31653863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0214-3 |
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author | Hansen, Andrew Barnett, Kevin Jantz, Patrick Phillips, Linda Goetz, Scott J. Hansen, Matt Venter, Oscar Watson, James E. M. Burns, Patrick Atkinson, Scott Rodríguez-Buritica, Susana Ervin, Jamison Virnig, Anne Supples, Christina De Camargo, Rafael |
author_facet | Hansen, Andrew Barnett, Kevin Jantz, Patrick Phillips, Linda Goetz, Scott J. Hansen, Matt Venter, Oscar Watson, James E. M. Burns, Patrick Atkinson, Scott Rodríguez-Buritica, Susana Ervin, Jamison Virnig, Anne Supples, Christina De Camargo, Rafael |
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description | Remotely sensed maps of global forest extent are widely used for conservation assessment and planning. Yet, there is increasing recognition that these efforts must now include elements of forest quality for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Such data are not yet available globally. Here we introduce two data products, the Forest Structural Condition Index (SCI) and the Forest Structural Integrity Index (FSII), to meet this need for the humid tropics. The SCI integrates canopy height, tree cover, and time since disturbance to distinguish short, open-canopy, or recently deforested stands from tall, closed-canopy, older stands typical of primary forest. The SCI was validated against estimates of foliage height diversity derived from airborne lidar. The FSII overlays a global index of human pressure on SCI to identify structurally complex forests with low human pressure, likely the most valuable for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. These products represent an important step in maturation from conservation focus on forest extent to forest stands that should be considered “best of the last” in international policy settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-68147222019-10-30 Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps Hansen, Andrew Barnett, Kevin Jantz, Patrick Phillips, Linda Goetz, Scott J. Hansen, Matt Venter, Oscar Watson, James E. M. Burns, Patrick Atkinson, Scott Rodríguez-Buritica, Susana Ervin, Jamison Virnig, Anne Supples, Christina De Camargo, Rafael Sci Data Data Descriptor Remotely sensed maps of global forest extent are widely used for conservation assessment and planning. Yet, there is increasing recognition that these efforts must now include elements of forest quality for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Such data are not yet available globally. Here we introduce two data products, the Forest Structural Condition Index (SCI) and the Forest Structural Integrity Index (FSII), to meet this need for the humid tropics. The SCI integrates canopy height, tree cover, and time since disturbance to distinguish short, open-canopy, or recently deforested stands from tall, closed-canopy, older stands typical of primary forest. The SCI was validated against estimates of foliage height diversity derived from airborne lidar. The FSII overlays a global index of human pressure on SCI to identify structurally complex forests with low human pressure, likely the most valuable for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. These products represent an important step in maturation from conservation focus on forest extent to forest stands that should be considered “best of the last” in international policy settings. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6814722/ /pubmed/31653863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0214-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article. |
spellingShingle | Data Descriptor Hansen, Andrew Barnett, Kevin Jantz, Patrick Phillips, Linda Goetz, Scott J. Hansen, Matt Venter, Oscar Watson, James E. M. Burns, Patrick Atkinson, Scott Rodríguez-Buritica, Susana Ervin, Jamison Virnig, Anne Supples, Christina De Camargo, Rafael Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title | Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title_full | Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title_fullStr | Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title_full_unstemmed | Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title_short | Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
title_sort | global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps |
topic | Data Descriptor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31653863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0214-3 |
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