Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1002/fee.2276 |
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots | |
Xiangping Hu; Bo Huang; Francesca Verones; Otavio Cavalett; Francesco Cherubini | |
2020-10-29 | |
发表期刊 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |
出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | Between 1992 and 2015, nearly 148 million hectares (Mha) within biodiversity hotspots – biologically rich but threatened terrestrial regions – worldwide underwent land‐cover changes, equating to 6% of the total areal extent of hotspots. Forest losses in hotspots amounted to 54 Mha (–7% of the forest area present in 1992), driven primarily by agricultural expansion (38 Mha); shrubland or savanna also declined by 23 Mha (–8%). Over the same time, urban areas expanded by 10 Mha (+108%). Major losses in forest areas occurred in Sundaland (11 Mha, –13% relative to 1992), Indo‐Burma (6 Mha, –6%), and Mesoamerica (5 Mha, –7%). Approximately 7.5 Mha of forest loss occurred within protected areas (–5% of the respective forest area in 1992), of which 3.9 Mha was cleared between 2000 and 2015, with ~1 Mha alone converted in the 5 years after 2010. More stringent and effective land‐based policies are urgently needed to prevent additional landscape fragmentation and preserve existing species richness in the world's biodiversity hotspots. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/316947 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xiangping Hu,Bo Huang,Francesca Verones,等. Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots[J]. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment,2020. |
APA | Xiangping Hu,Bo Huang,Francesca Verones,Otavio Cavalett,&Francesco Cherubini.(2020).Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots.Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. |
MLA | Xiangping Hu,et al."Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots".Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2020). |
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