Chapter 5 Soils and Forestry Data Analysis

Overview of Data

In the data base of the World Resources Institute, there are many variables that deal with forestry and soils: from deforestation data expressed in percentages and thousands of hectares for closed forests and total forests to soil degradation data based on 22 different indicators (as for example wind erosion and waterlogging). Instead of choosing one or the other of these variables, we review instead, in detail, a different way of looking at data of this sort (an expansion of the article listed in the references by Arlinghaus, ...

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