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| TABLE 16
Pan-tropical area transition matrix for the standard period 1980-1990 1 |
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| Classes at year 1980 |
Classes at year 1990 (million hectares)
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Total 1980 |
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Closed Forest |
Open Forest |
Long Fallow |
Fragm. Forest |
Shrub |
Short Fallow |
Other Land Cover |
Water |
Planta- tions |
million ha |
% |
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| Closed Forest |
1 275.91 |
8.97 |
9.27 |
9.17 |
2.53 |
21.57 |
34.79 |
1.78 |
3.95 |
1 367.96 |
44.6 |
| Open Forest |
0.86 |
283.31 |
1.30 |
5.18 |
1.46 |
2.40 |
10.18 |
0.05 |
0.21 |
304.94 |
9.9 |
| Long Fallow |
1.10 |
0.26 |
48.61 |
1.08 |
0.79 |
2.35 |
2.27 |
0.05 |
0.01 |
56.54 |
1.8 |
| Fragm. Forest |
0.58 |
0.63 |
0.63 |
159.33 |
0.45 |
1.41 |
11.40 |
0.25 |
0.39 |
175.06 |
5.7 |
| Shrubs |
0.15 |
0.20 |
0.26 |
0.14 |
152.69 |
0.34 |
19.17 |
0.19 |
0.15 |
173.30 |
5.6 |
| Short Fallow |
0.56 |
0.29 |
0.46 |
0.39 |
0.16 |
119.79 |
7.30 |
0.19 |
0.17 |
129.31 |
4.2 |
| Other Land Cover |
0.71 |
0.70 |
0.26 |
1.35 |
1.94 |
2.03 |
834.23 |
1.58 |
0.44 |
843.26 |
27.5 |
| Water |
0.14 |
0.02 |
0.01 |
0.05 |
0.01 |
0.07 |
1.46 |
0.002 |
0.02 |
1.78 |
0.1 |
| Plantation |
0.05 |
0.03 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.01 |
0.11 |
0.00 |
15.68 |
15.88 |
0.5 |
| TOTAL 1990 million ha |
1 280.06 |
294.41 |
60.81 |
176.69 |
160.03 |
149.97 |
920.91 |
4.09 |
21.03 |
3 068.01 |
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% |
41.7 |
9.6 |
2.0 |
5.8 |
5.2 |
4.9 |
30.0 |
0.1 |
0.7 |
100.0 |
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1 Results based on visible common area between recent and historical satellite images.
2 Stable water (oceans, lakes, etc) has been excluded from the analysis of changes.
