Description
This dataset provides estimates of the extent of mangrove loss, land cover change, and its anthropogenic or climatic drivers in three time periods: 2000-2005, 2005-2010, and 2010-2016. Landsat-based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) anomalies were used to determine loss extent in each period. The drivers of mangrove loss were determined by examining land cover changes using a random forest machine learning technique that considered change from mangrove to wet soil, dry soil, and water at each loss pixel. A series of decision trees used several global-scale land-use datasets to identify the ultimate driver of the mangrove loss. Loss drivers include commodity production (agriculture, aquaculture), settlement, erosion, extreme climatic events, and non-productive conversion. Maps of loss extent per period, mangrove land cover changes, and loss drivers are provided for each of 39 mangrove holding nations.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | JPG | Global distribution of mangrove loss and its drivers. (a) The longitudinal distribution of total mangrove loss and the relative contribution of its primary drivers. Different colors represent unique drivers of mangrove loss. (b) The latitudinal distribution of total mangrove loss and the relative contribution of its primary drivers. (c-g) Global distribution of mangrove loss and associated drivers from 2000 to 2016 at 1-degree x 1-degree resolution, with the relative contribution (percentage) of primary drivers per continent: (c) North America, (d) South America, (e) Africa, (f) Asia, (g) Australia together with Oceania. Source: Goldberg et al. (2020) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | Global Mangrove Loss Extent, Land Cover Change, and Loss Drivers, 2000-2016: CMS_Global_Mangrove_Loss.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | Global Mangrove Loss Extent, Land Cover Change, and Loss Drivers, 2000-2016: Mangrove_Loss_Driver_ErrorMatrix.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |