Annual South American forest loss estimates based on passive microwave remote sensing (1990&ndash;2010)

van Marle, M. J. E.; van der Werf, G. R.; de Jeu, R. A. M.; Liu, Y. Y.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-609-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-609-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-609-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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02 Feb 2016

Research article |

| 02 Feb 2016

Annual South American forest loss estimates based on passive microwave remote sensing (1990–2010)

M. J. E. van Marle, G. R. van der Werf, R. A. M. de Jeu, and Y. Y. Liu

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RC C4108: 'Review', Edward Mitchard, 06 Aug 2015
- AC C7203: 'Response Referee 1', Margreet van Marle, 30 Oct 2015
RC C4921: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Sep 2015
- AC C7204: 'Response Referee 2', Margreet van Marle, 30 Oct 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (12 Nov 2015) by Mathew Williams

AR by Margreet van Marle on behalf of the Authors (11 Dec 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Dec 2015) by Mathew Williams

RR by Edward Mitchard (05 Jan 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Jan 2016) by Mathew Williams

AR by Margreet van Marle on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

We have quantified large-scale forest loss over a 21-year period (1990–2010) in the tropical biomes of South America using a new satellite-based data set. We found that South American forest exhibited interannual variability without a clear trend during the 1990s, but increased from 2000 to 2004. After 2004, forest loss decreased again, mainly as a result of a decrease in the Brazilian Amazon, whereas at the same time regions south of the arc of deforestation showed an increase in forest loss.