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A Century of Land-Use Change in South and Southeast Asia

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Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 101))

Abstract

Compilation of published reports on land use in South and Southeast Asia betwen 1880 and 1980 produced time-series land-use data in a uniform format for the countries of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines. To make use of this data, we developed a procedure to systematically document changes in land use and vegetative cover. The objective of this compilation and analysis is to produce data that can be used to test geographically referenced models of carbon dynamics and other greenhouse gas emissions so global climatic modeling can be improved.

Between 1880 and 1980, the South and Southeast Asian landscape underwent dramatic modification. Most significantly, the area of lands categorized as under forest/woodland and wetlands declined by 130.6 x 106 ha (−47.4%). At the same time, cultivated area increased by 106 x 106 ha. Thus, 81% of the lost forest and wetland vegetation appears to have been converted into expanded agricultural land. Human population in this region more than tripled between 1880 and 1980, producing an enormous demand for additional land for cultivation. The cost of this transformation has been the conversion of much of the vegetative cover from high-biomass to low-biomass categories.

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