Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research
Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate regulation. Studying land use and land cover change makes it possible to understand the land’s alterations associated with defor...
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| author | Velastegui-Montoya, Andrés Montalván Burbano, Néstor Peña-Villacreses, Gina Lima, Aline de Herrera-Franco, Gricelda |
| author_facet | Velastegui-Montoya, Andrés Montalván Burbano, Néstor Peña-Villacreses, Gina Lima, Aline de Herrera-Franco, Gricelda |
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| description | Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate regulation. Studying land use and land cover change makes it possible to understand the land’s alterations associated with deforestation, degradation, erosion, soil desertification, and biodiversity loss. The objective of this study is to evaluate the different approaches to land use and land cover research in tropical forests based on the evolutionary and qualitative analysis of the last 44 years of scientific production. The data were collected using the Scopus database and was based on the PRISMA methodology’s four phases: (i) identification, (ii) screening, (iii) eligibility, and (iv) included. The results showed a significant increase in the study of land use and land cover consolidated in 4557 articles, with contributions from 74 countries, revealing 14 themes and seven lines of research. Core research areas such as biodiversity, land use, and conservation exist due to the ongoing interest in the value of tropical forests and their response to climate change. The present research allowed us to consider future study topics such as the relationship between sustainable development goals and land use and cover in tropical forests, as well as the evaluation of the environmental impact of economic activities in forests. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-140312023-04-12T19:08:28Z Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research Velastegui-Montoya, Andrés Montalván Burbano, Néstor Peña-Villacreses, Gina Lima, Aline de Herrera-Franco, Gricelda land cover land use tropical forest bibliometric analysis knowledge mapping co-citation co-occurrence Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate regulation. Studying land use and land cover change makes it possible to understand the land’s alterations associated with deforestation, degradation, erosion, soil desertification, and biodiversity loss. The objective of this study is to evaluate the different approaches to land use and land cover research in tropical forests based on the evolutionary and qualitative analysis of the last 44 years of scientific production. The data were collected using the Scopus database and was based on the PRISMA methodology’s four phases: (i) identification, (ii) screening, (iii) eligibility, and (iv) included. The results showed a significant increase in the study of land use and land cover consolidated in 4557 articles, with contributions from 74 countries, revealing 14 themes and seven lines of research. Core research areas such as biodiversity, land use, and conservation exist due to the ongoing interest in the value of tropical forests and their response to climate change. The present research allowed us to consider future study topics such as the relationship between sustainable development goals and land use and cover in tropical forests, as well as the evaluation of the environmental impact of economic activities in forests. 2022-10-24T16:28:08Z 2022-10-24T16:28:08Z 2022-10-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1999-4907 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14031 10.3390/f13101709 en https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/10/1709 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | land cover land use tropical forest bibliometric analysis knowledge mapping co-citation co-occurrence Velastegui-Montoya, Andrés Montalván Burbano, Néstor Peña-Villacreses, Gina Lima, Aline de Herrera-Franco, Gricelda Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title | Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title_full | Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title_fullStr | Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title_short | Land Use and Land Cover in Tropical Forest: Global Research |
| title_sort | land use and land cover in tropical forest: global research |
| topic | land cover land use tropical forest bibliometric analysis knowledge mapping co-citation co-occurrence |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14031 |
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