Published June 13, 2023 | Version v3

Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value

  • 1. Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany; Integrated Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
  • 2. Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation research group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) | Schlossplatz 1 | A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
  • 3. Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
  • 4. Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
  • 5. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina< Northern Territory 0909 Australia
  • 6. Instituto de Ecología Regional (UNT- CONICET), Residencia Universitaria Horco Molle (cc 4107) Tucumán, Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán (cc 4000), Tucumán, Argentina
  • 7. Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, 3453 Av. Julius Nyerere, Main University Campus, Building #1. Maputo, Mozambique; Department of Environmental Sciences, 294 McCormick road, Charlottesville Va 22904 Department of Environmental Sciences, 294 McCormick road, Charlottesville Va 22904
  • 8. Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; F.R.S. - FNRS, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Description

This data repository contains the data results used to analyse how deforestation dynamics relate to areas of woodland protection and to conservation priorities across the world's tropical dry woodlands. We do this for the period of 2000 to 2020, at 10-km spatial resolution (Coordinate System: WGS_1984_Mollweide, float format) following Buchadas et al. (2022) methods available  in https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00886-9. Datasets used for this analysis are generally publicly available, forest cover and loss data are available at: https://data.globalforestwatch.org/. The data on protected areas is available at https://www.protectedplanet.net/. The global conservation priority layers have been made openly available as part of Jung et al. (2021) at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5006332. The map of Indigenous Peoples' Lands can be obtained from the authors on reasonable request (Garnett et al. 2018). The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions. Thus we refrain from sharing the primary data that includes it, here.

Further details of the datasets can be found in Buchadas et. al. (2023)

For further questions or issues with the datasets, please contact Ana Buchadas at ana.buchadas@geo.hu-berlin.de.

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Funding

European Commission
MIDLAND - Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions 677140
European Commission
SystemShift - Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation 101001239