Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation

Deforestation and economic growth trends on oceanic islands highlight the need for meso-scale analysis and improved mid-range theory in conservation

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Forests both support biodiversity and provide a wide range Cheese Knives of benefits to people at multiple scales.Global and national remote sensing analyses of drivers of forest change generally focus on broad-scale influences on area (composition), ignoring arrangement (configuration).To explore meso-scale relationships, we compared forest composition and configuration to six indicators of economic growth over 23 years (1992-2015) of satellite data for 23 island nations.

Based on global analyses, we expected to find Fridge Crisper Cover clear relationships between economic growth and forest cover.Eleven islands lost 1 to 50% of forest cover, eight gained 1 to 28%, and four remained steady.Surprisingly, we found no clear relationship between economic growth trends and forest-cover change trajectories.

These results differ from those of global land-cover change analyses and suggest that conservation-oriented policy and management approaches developed at both national and local scales are ignoring key meso-scale processes.