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Geographer Mathias Disney on the deforestation, forested environments and what is needed to reduce deforestation and degradation.
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'Degradation is known to be a big cause of loss of forest, in general of reducing the quality of those forests for their resilience to climate, their value. There's an ecosystem service to us selfishly but to all other organisms that depend on them, so there's been a lot of work again in trying to understand how we can map degradation rather than just purely deforestation.'
Mathias Disney, Professor of Geography, University College London
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Geographer Mathias Disney on the deforestation, forested environments and what is needed to reduce deforestation and degradation.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/forest-degradation-10126
'Degradation is known to be a big cause of loss of forest, in general of reducing the quality of those forests for their resilience to climate, their value. There's an ecosystem service to us selfishly but to all other organisms that depend on them, so there's been a lot of work again in trying to understand how we can map degradation rather than just purely deforestation.'
Mathias Disney, Professor of Geography, University College London
Carbon Cycle: serious-science.org/carbon-cycle-9970
Wildfires: serious-science.org/wildfires-9677
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