Indonesia has the second-largest biodiversity of any country in the world. Deforestation and
forest degradation have caused a range of environmental issues, including habitat …

Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Live woody vegetation is the largest reservoir of biomass carbon, with its restoration
considered one of the most effective natural climate solutions. However, terrestrial carbon …

The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical humid forests is declining
because of climate change, deforestation and degradation from fire and logging …

Abstract Even though Southeast Asia is a hotspot of forest degradation and deforestation,
thorough reviews of the drivers of forest degradation and deforestation are lacking in the …

Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments
compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems that provide refugia …

Many nations use ecological compensation policies to address negative impacts of
development projects and achieve No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity and ecosystem …

Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and
composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water …

The use of Sentinel-1 (S1) radar for wide-area, near-real-time (NRT) tropical-forest-change
monitoring is discussed, with particular attention to forest degradation and deforestation …

The increase in Earth observations from space in recent years supports improved
quantification of carbon storage by terrestrial vegetation and fosters studies that relate …