Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century

• Main Authors: Zhenzhong Zeng, Lyndon Estes, Alan D. Ziegler, Anping Chen, Timothy Searchinger, Fangyuan Hua, Kaiyu Guan, Attachai Jintrawet, Eric F. Wood
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85049557569&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/58623
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2018, The Author(s). Southeast Asia is a hotspot of tropical deforestation for agriculture. Most of the deforestation is thought to occur in lowland forests, whereas the region’s mountainous highlands undergo very limited deforestation. However, regional reports of cropland expansion in some highl...