Nature Communications (Dec 2020)
Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity
- H. S. Grantham,
- A. Duncan,
- T. D. Evans,
- K. R. Jones,
- H. L. Beyer,
- R. Schuster,
- J. Walston,
- J. C. Ray,
- J. G. Robinson,
- M. Callow,
- T. Clements,
- H. M. Costa,
- A. DeGemmis,
- P. R. Elsen,
- J. Ervin,
- P. Franco,
- E. Goldman,
- S. Goetz,
- A. Hansen,
- E. Hofsvang,
- P. Jantz,
- S. Jupiter,
- A. Kang,
- P. Langhammer,
- W. F. Laurance,
- S. Lieberman,
- M. Linkie,
- Y. Malhi,
- S. Maxwell,
- M. Mendez,
- R. Mittermeier,
- N. J. Murray,
- H. Possingham,
- J. Radachowsky,
- S. Saatchi,
- C. Samper,
- J. Silverman,
- A. Shapiro,
- B. Strassburg,
- T. Stevens,
- E. Stokes,
- R. Taylor,
- T. Tear,
- R. Tizard,
- O. Venter,
- P. Visconti,
- S. Wang,
- J. E. M. Watson
Affiliations
- H. S. Grantham
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- A. Duncan
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- T. D. Evans
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- K. R. Jones
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- H. L. Beyer
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland
- R. Schuster
- Department of Biology, Carleton University
- J. Walston
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- J. C. Ray
- Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
- J. G. Robinson
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- M. Callow
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- T. Clements
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- H. M. Costa
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- A. DeGemmis
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- P. R. Elsen
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- J. Ervin
- United Nations Development Programme, One United Nations Plaza
- P. Franco
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- E. Goldman
- World Resources Institute
- S. Goetz
- Global Earth Observation & Dynamics of Ecosystems Lab, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University
- A. Hansen
- Landscape Biodiversity Lab, Ecology Department, Montana State University
- E. Hofsvang
- Rainforest Foundation Norway
- P. Jantz
- Global Earth Observation & Dynamics of Ecosystems Lab, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University
- S. Jupiter
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- A. Kang
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- P. Langhammer
- Global Wildlife Conservation
- W. F. Laurance
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
- S. Lieberman
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- M. Linkie
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- Y. Malhi
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
- S. Maxwell
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland
- M. Mendez
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- R. Mittermeier
- Global Wildlife Conservation
- N. J. Murray
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
- H. Possingham
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
- J. Radachowsky
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- S. Saatchi
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- C. Samper
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- J. Silverman
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- A. Shapiro
- World Wide Fund for Nature Germany, Space+Science
- B. Strassburg
- International Institute of Sustainability
- T. Stevens
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- E. Stokes
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- R. Taylor
- World Resources Institute
- T. Tear
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- R. Tizard
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- O. Venter
- Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute, University of Northern British Columbia
- P. Visconti
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- S. Wang
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- J. E. M. Watson
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Mapping and quantifying degree of forest modification is critical to conserve and manage forests. Here the authors propose a new quantitative metric for landscape integrity and apply it to a global forest map, showing that less than half of the world’s forest cover has high integrity, most of which is outside nationally designed protected areas.
