Trees, forests and land use in drylands: The first global assessment

Chiara Patriarca; Mamane Bako; Anne Branthomme; Tracey Frescino; Fidaa F. Haddad; Abdel Hamied Hamid; Antonio Martucci; Hivy Ortiz Chour; Paul L. Patterson; Nicolas Picard; Matt C. Reeves; Richard T. Reynolds; Moctar Sacande; Kenichi Shono; Ben Sparrow; Fred Stolle; Norbert Winkler-Rathonyi; Daowei Zhang; Feras Ziadat

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Trees, forests and land use in drylands: The first global assessment

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Authors:

Chiara Patriarca, Mamane Bako, Anne Branthomme, Tracey Frescino, Fidaa F. Haddad, Abdel Hamied Hamid, Antonio Martucci, Hivy Ortiz Chour, Paul L. Patterson, Nicolas Picard, Matt C. Reeves, Richard T. Reynolds, Moctar Sacande, Kenichi Shono, Ben Sparrow, Fred Stolle, Norbert Winkler-Rathonyi, Daowei Zhang, Feras Ziadat

Year:

2019

Type:

Miscellaneous

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

FAO Forestry Paper No. 184. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 184 p.

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Abstract

The first Global Drylands Assessment is a thematic study complementing FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) but differing from it in method and scope. Unlike FRA, which relies on official national statistics, the Global Drylands Assessment was prepared by a consortium of partner institutions and was carried out through visual interpretation of satellite images. The results are reported at the global and regional levels, not the country level.

Keywords

drylands, arid areas, wooded lands, forests, vegetation

Citation

Patriarca, Chiara, coord. author; Bako, Mamane; Branthomme, Anne; Frescino, Tracey S.; Haddad, Fidaa F.; Hamid, Abdel Hamied; Martucci, Antonio; Chour, Hivy Ortiz; Patterson, Paul L.; Picard, Nicolas; Reeves, Matt C.; Reynolds, Richard T.; Sacande, Moctar; Shono, Kenichi; Sparrow, Ben; Stolle, Fred; Winkler-Rathonyi, Norbert; Zhang, Daowei; Ziadat, Feras. 2019. Trees, forests and land use in drylands: The first global assessment. FAO Forestry Paper No. 184. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 184 p.