Response to Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes"

J-F Bastin; D Mollicone; A Grainger; B Sparrow; N Picard; A Lowe; R Castro

doi:10.1126/science.aao2077

Response to Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes"

Science. 2017 Nov 10;358(6364):eaao2077. doi: 10.1126/science.aao2077.

Authors

J-F Bastin^{1

2}, D Mollicone¹, A Grainger³, B Sparrow⁴, N Picard¹, A Lowe⁴, R Castro¹

Affiliations

¹ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.
² Landscape Ecology and Plant Production Systems Unit, Université libre de Bruxelles, CP264-2, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
³ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
⁴ Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.

PMID: 29123036
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2077

Abstract

De la Cruz et al question the reliability of our results, claiming that we do not refer to the most appropriate spatial extent of drylands. In our response, we explain why we chose an existing and internationally recognized delineation of drylands among several options, and why our findings are due to a difference of remote sensing technique and not to the definition of drylands we have selected.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Forests*
Humans
Reproducibility of Results