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Forest Cover Dynamics at the End of the Twentieth and the Beginning of the Twenty-First Centuries

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Time series of Landsat data were employed to map and quantify changes in forest cover within European Russia from 1985 to 2012. Results of this automated satellite image processing may serve as a baseline for further analyses of forest dynamics and its drivers.

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  1. Department of Geographical Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    P. V. Potapov, S. A. Turubanova, A. Yu. Tyukavina & A. M. Krylov

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Correspondence to P. V. Potapov .

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  1. Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Olga V. Smirnova

  2. Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

    Maxim V. Bobrovsky

  3. Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS - Branch of the M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

    Larisa G. Khanina

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Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S.A., Tyukavina, A.Y., Krylov, A.M. (2017). Forest Cover Dynamics at the End of the Twentieth and the Beginning of the Twenty-First Centuries. In: Smirnova, O., Bobrovsky, M., Khanina, L. (eds) European Russian Forests. Plant and Vegetation, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1172-0_7

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