Los mapas de alta resolución muestran que el caucho causa una importante deforestación

Yunxia Wang1, Peter M Hollingsworth2, Deli Zhai3

  • 1Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. wangyx.tina@outlook.com.

Nature
|October 18, 2023
PubMed
Resumen

La deforestación para la expansión del caucho natural en el sudeste asiático ha sido subestimada. Nuevos mapas satelitales revelan que la pérdida de bosques es al menos dos veces mayor de lo que se informó anteriormente, lo que afecta a la biodiversidad.

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