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Incorporating landscape character in cork oak forest expansion in Sardinia: constraint or opportunity? / I.N. Vogiatzakis in Forests, vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020)  

Public [article]  inForests > vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020) . - 18 p. Titre : Incorporating landscape character in cork oak forest expansion in Sardinia: constraint or opportunity? Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : I.N. Vogiatzakis, Auteur ; Geoffrey H. Griffiths, Auteur ; Maria Zomeni, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 18 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications SIG [Termes IGN] biodiversité végétale [Termes IGN] changement d'utilisation du sol [Termes IGN] habitat forestier [Termes IGN] modélisation spatiale [Termes IGN] occupation du sol [Termes IGN] paysage [Termes IGN] protection des forêts [Termes IGN] Quercus suber [Termes IGN] Sardaigne [Termes IGN] site Natura 2000 Résumé : (auteur) Cork oak (Quercus suber) is a declining woodland species across the island of Sardinia, despite its former economic importance for wine production and its significance for biodiversity. In particular, cork oak forests (COFs) on the island have seen a 29% decrease in the past 45 years. A spatial GIS model was developed to determine suitability for the expansion of cork oak forests on the island. The model uses a set of simple spatial decision rules based on principles of landscape ecology and expert opinion to assign a suitability score for pure cork oak forests to every land use parcel in Sardinia. These rules include the type of existing land parcel, its size, distance to existing cork oak forest, and the area of seminatural habitats in its neighborhood. This was coupled with a map of landscape types to assist with the development of policy for the protection of cork oak forests across Sardinia. The results show that there is an area of 116,785 ha potentially suitable for cork oak forest expansion in Sardinia, with the largest area of potential habitat on granitic mountains. There is a substantial overall agreement (Cohen’s kappa = 0.61) between the suitability map produced and the historical reference map. The model is flexible and can be rerun to reflect changes in policy relating to agri-environmental targets for habitats and species. Numéro de notice : A2020-653 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/f11050593 Date de publication en ligne : 24/05/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050593 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96113 [article]

Shrub biomass estimates in former burnt areas using Sentinel 2 images processing and classification / Jose Aranha in Forests, vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020)  

Public [article]  inForests > vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020) . - 19 p. Titre : Shrub biomass estimates in former burnt areas using Sentinel 2 images processing and classification Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jose Aranha, Auteur ; Teresa Enes, Auteur ; Ana Calvão, Auteur ; Hélder Viana, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 19 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] arbuste [Termes IGN] biomasse [Termes IGN] classification dirigée [Termes IGN] gestion forestière [Termes IGN] image proche infrarouge [Termes IGN] image RVB [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-MSI [Termes IGN] incendie de forêt [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] Normalized Difference Vegetation Index [Termes IGN] Portugal [Termes IGN] signature spectrale [Termes IGN] sous-bois [Termes IGN] système d'information géographique [Termes IGN] zone sinistrée Résumé : (auteur) Shrubs growing in former burnt areas play two diametrically opposed roles. On the one hand, they protect the soil against erosion, promote rainwater infiltration, carbon sequestration and support animal life. On the other hand, after the shrubs’ density reaches a particular size for the canopy to touch and the shrubs’ biomass accumulates more than 10 Mg ha−1, they create the necessary conditions for severe wild fires to occur and spread. The creation of a methodology suitable to identify former burnt areas and to track shrubs’ regrowth within these areas in a regular and a multi temporal basis would be beneficial. The combined use of geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) supported by dedicated land survey and field work for data collection has been identified as a suitable method to manage these tasks. The free access to Sentinel images constitutes a valuable tool for updating the GIS project and for the monitoring of regular shrubs’ accumulated biomass. Sentinel 2 VIS-NIR images are suitable to classify rural areas (overall accuracy = 79.6% and Cohen’s K = 0.754) and to create normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) images to be used in association to allometric equations for the shrubs’ biomass estimation (R2 = 0.8984, p-value Numéro de notice : A2020-654 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/f11050555 Date de publication en ligne : 14/05/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050555 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96116 [article]

What Is threatening forests in protected areas? A global assessment of deforestation in protected areas, 2001–2018 / Christopher M. Wade in Forests, vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020)  

Public [article]  inForests > vol 11 n° 5 (May 2020) . - 14 p. Titre : What Is threatening forests in protected areas? A global assessment of deforestation in protected areas, 2001–2018 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Christopher M. Wade, Auteur ; Kemen G. Austin, Auteur ; James Cajka, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 14 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] aire protégée [Termes IGN] Amérique du nord [Termes IGN] analyse diachronique [Termes IGN] arbuste [Termes IGN] biodiversité [Termes IGN] Brésil [Termes IGN] Congo [Termes IGN] couvert forestier [Termes IGN] déboisement [Termes IGN] gaz à effet de serre [Termes IGN] habitat forestier [Termes IGN] indicateur de service écosystémique [Termes IGN] Indonésie [Termes IGN] protection des forêts [Termes IGN] risque environnemental [Vedettes matières IGN] Ecologie forestière Résumé : (auteur) The protection of forests is crucial to providing important ecosystem services, such as supplying clean air and water, safeguarding critical habitats for biodiversity, and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this importance, global forest loss has steadily increased in recent decades. Protected Areas (PAs) currently account for almost 15% of Earth’s terrestrial surface and protect 5% of global tree cover and were developed as a principal approach to limit the impact of anthropogenic activities on natural, intact ecosystems and habitats. We assess global trends in forest loss inside and outside of PAs, and land cover following this forest loss, using a global map of tree cover loss and global maps of land cover. While forests in PAs experience loss at lower rates than non-protected forests, we find that the temporal trend of forest loss in PAs is markedly similar to that of all forest loss globally. We find that forest loss in PAs is most commonly—and increasingly—followed by shrubland, a broad category that could represent re-growing forest, agricultural fallows, or pasture lands in some regional contexts. Anthropogenic forest loss for agriculture is common in some regions, particularly in the global tropics, while wildfires, pests, and storm blowdown are a significant and consistent cause of forest loss in more northern latitudes, such as the United States, Canada, and Russia. Our study describes a process for screening tree cover loss and agriculture expansion taking place within PAs, and identification of priority targets for further site-specific assessments of threats to PAs. We illustrate an approach for more detailed assessment of forest loss in four case study PAs in Brazil, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the United States. Numéro de notice : A2020-655 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/f11050539 Date de publication en ligne : 12/05/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050539 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96119 [article]