Deforestation and land use changes in Western Ghats, India

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Jha, CS
Dutt, CBS [1 ]
Bawa, KS
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[1] Natl Remote Sensing Agcy, Forestry & Ecol Div, Hyderabad 500037, Andhra Pradesh, India
[2] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Biol, Boston, MA 02125 USA
[3] Ashoka Trust Res Ecol & Environm, Bangalore 560024, Karnataka, India
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CURRENT SCIENCE | 2000年 / 79卷 / 02期
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
We estimated changes in forest cover between 1973 and 1995 in the southern part of the Western Ghats using satellite data, The study area of approximately 40,000 km(2) showed a loss of 25.6% in forest cover over 22 years. The dense forest was reduced by 19.5% and open forest decreased by 33.2%. As a consequence, degraded forest increased by 26.64%. There has been a great deal of spatial variability in the pattern of forest loss and land use change throughout the region. Our estimates of deforestation in the region for the contemporary period are the highest reported so far.
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