Average Percent Forest Cleared per Year, 2000-2005, by Terrestrial Ecoregion

The average percent of forest cleared per year between 2000 – 2005, by terrestrial ecoregion. The map of forest clearing was produced using Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) data (Hansen et al. 2006). VCF files were assembled by year for 2000 through 2005 by realm. These data sets were resampled to one-kilometer ground resolution and merged into a global product by year. We then subtracted data from 2001 from 2000 data; this process was applied to all subsequent years. The derived, differenced data sets were averaged to obtain an annual av¬erage for years 2000–2005. These data were derived by The Nature Conservancy, and were displayed in a map published in The Atlas of Global Conservation (Hoekstra et al., University...

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