East Timor Deforestation Rates & Statistics | GFW - Global Forest …
Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize key statistics about forests in East Timor. Statistics – including rates of forest change, forest extent, drivers of deforestation, and deforestation and fire alerts – can be customized, easily shared and downloaded for offline use.
Timor and Wetar deciduous forests - Wikipedia
The Timor and Wetar deciduous forests is a tropical dry forest ecoregion in Indonesia and East Timor. The ecoregion includes the islands of Timor , Wetar , Rote , Savu , and adjacent smaller islands.
What Are The Major Natural Resources Of Timor-Leste?
Feb 27, 2019 · In 2010, forests covered roughly 50% of East Timor's territory according to data from FAO. The data also indicated that from 1990 to 2010, East Timor lost approximately 23% of its forest cover. Mangrove forests are some of East Timor's most important forests.
Structural and floristic behaviors in East Timor forest vegetation
Oct 25, 2013 · Understanding the structural organization of the East Timor forest flora is, therefore, critical for sustainable management of this natural resource. Thus, the main purpose of this preliminary study was to identify the differences in the floristic–structural behaviors of the woody vegetation.
East Timor - Global Forest Watch
Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize key statistics about forests in Dili, East Timor. Statistics – including rates of forest change and forest extent – can be customized, easily shared and downloaded for offline use. In 2010, Dili had 7.48 kha of …
New Beginnings in East Timorese Forest Management
Jun 1, 2003 · This paper details an anthracological pilot study for the Lepu-Kina rockshelter site (AT-7), located on Atauro Island, East Timor and considers the implications of the preliminary results for...
Structural and floristic behaviors in East Timor forest vegetation
Oct 25, 2013 · East Timor was formerly covered in abundant forests. They were the source of valuable timber, including sandalwood (Santalum album), suren (Toona sureni syn. Cedrela toona), rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus) and other species. In former times, shifting cultivation in the forests was the traditional and generally sustainable land management system.
East Timor Deforestation Rates & Statistics | GFW
In 2010, East Timor had 693 kha of natural forest, extending over 46% of its land area. In 2023, it lost 1.48 kha of natural forest, equivalent to 799 kt of CO₂ emissions. Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize the role forests play in climate change in East Timor.
Structural and floristic behaviors in East Timor forest vegetation
Nov 1, 2013 · Until a century ago, East Timor was densely vegetated with semievergreen tropical forests at higher altitudes and eucalypt-dominated savannah forests at lower altitudes (Cresp ı et al. 2013;...
Change in vegetation cover in East Timor, 1989–1999
Feb 24, 2004 · To assess the patterns of vegetation cover change, as a corollary of resource utilization, satellite imagery, ground truth data, and image processing techniques can be useful. This article is...