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This paper examines the size and intensity of changes among five land categories during the two time intervals in a region of Indonesia that is pioneering negotiations concerning reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Maps at 1973, 1993, and 2005 indicate that land-cover change is accelerating, while carbon loss is decelerating in Jambi Province, Sumatra. Land dynamics have shifted from Forest loss during 1973–1993 to Agroforest loss during 1993–2005. Forest losses account for most reductions in aboveground carbon during the both time intervals, but Agroforest plays an increasingly important role in carbon reductions during the more recent interval. These results provide motivation for future REDD policies to count carbon changes associated with all influential land categories, such as Agroforests.
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Intervention speech by H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono president of the republic of Indonesia on climate change presented at the 2009’s G-20 Leaders Summit in Pittsburgh, USA.
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) along with ICRAF’s projects concerning Landscape Mosaic and REDD-Alert supported this research. The United States National Science Foundation supplied funding via grant DEB-0620579 that led to the free computer program that we used available at https://sites.google.com/site/intensityanalysis. Andee Ekadinata and Feri Johana assisted in the processing of land category maps. Anonymous reviewers supplied constructive comments that helped to improve this paper.
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Villamor, G.B., Pontius, R.G. & van Noordwijk, M. Agroforest’s growing role in reducing carbon losses from Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia. Reg Environ Change 14, 825–834 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-013-0525-4
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