image: 3-year moving average of annual forest loss area for the major disturbance categories in all countries. Each major disturbance category contributes >0.5 Mha to the total 2000-2014 forest loss area. Forest clearing for small-scale rotational agriculture includes clearing for charcoal production, the contribution of which does not exceed 10% of the class area. Error bands represent ± SE. Annual area estimates along with SEs are presented in table S2B. Abbreviations: Prim. - "Primary", Sec. - "Secondary", HTF - "Humid Tropical Forests", Woodl. - "Woodlands". This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Tyukavina at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing." view more
Credit: Tyukavina <em>et al., Sci. Adv.</em> 2018;4: eaat2993