The global scar on Congo forests

Stéphane Couturier ()
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Stéphane Couturier: National Autonomous University of Mexico

Nature Sustainability, 2019, vol. 2, issue 7, 547-548

Abstract: It has long been observed that roads clear the way to deforestation in the tropics. Viewing deforestation scars in the Congo Basin from space, we can now model the impact roads have both inside and outside logging concessions.

Date: 2019
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