期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 7, 页码 1208-1229出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01150.x
关键词
global change; land use; land-use history; logging; secondary forest age; secondary forest; secondary land; shifting cultivation; wood harvest
To accurately assess the impacts of human land use on the Earth system, information is needed on the current and historical patterns of land-use activities. Previous global studies have focused on developing reconstructions of the spatial patterns of agriculture. Here, we provide the first global gridded estimates of the underlying land conversions (land-use transitions), wood harvesting, and resulting secondary lands annually, for the period 1700-2000. Using data-based historical cases, our results suggest that 42-68% of the land surface was impacted by land-use activities (crop, pasture, wood harvest) during this period, some multiple times. Secondary land area increased 10-44 x 10(6) km(2); about half of this was forested. Wood harvest and shifting cultivation generated 70-90% of the secondary land by 2000; permanent abandonment and relocation of agricultural land accounted for the rest. This study provides important new estimates of globally gridded land-use activities for studies attempting to assess the consequences of anthropogenic changes to the Earth's surface over time.
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