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.aao2079

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

Science. 2017 Nov 17;358(6365):881. doi: 10.1126/science.aao2079.

Authors

J-F Bastin^{1

2}, D Mollicone³, A Grainger⁴, B Sparrow⁵, N Picard³, A Lowe⁵, R Castro³

Affiliations

¹ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy. [email protected].
² Landscape Ecology and Plant Production Systems Unit, Université libre de Bruxelles, CP264-2, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
³ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.
⁴ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
⁵ Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.

PMID: 29146804
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2079

Abstract

Griffith et al do not question the quality of our analysis, but they question our results with respect to the definition of forest we employed. In our response, we explain why the differences we report result from a difference of technique and not of definition, and how anyone can adapt-as we did-our data set to any forest definition and tree cover threshold of interest.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Forests*
Trees*