{"id":1647,"date":"2019-10-04T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1647"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:08:16","slug":"remote-sensing-reveals-impact-of-logging-road-expansion-in-congo-basin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/remote-sensing-reveals-impact-of-logging-road-expansion-in-congo-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote sensing reveals impact of logging road expansion in Congo Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nadine Laporte<\/strong>, research professor in the School of Forestry, and&nbsp;<strong>Scott\nGoetz<\/strong>, professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber\nSystems, are co-authors of a paper published in Nature Sustainability. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-019-0310-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo\nBasin<\/a>\u201d studies the progressive expansion of logging roads across the\nCongo Basin. By comparing older and newer roads of different types, whether\nprimary, secondary or logging roads derived from Landsat image time series\ndata, the scientists show why the dramatic expansion is causing broad concern\nfor forest ecosystems, carbon storage and wildlife vulnerable to subsistence\nhunting\u2014and how decommissioning roads after logging could play a crucial role\nin reducing the negative impacts of timber extraction on tropical forest\necosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadine Laporte, research professor in the School of Forestry, and&nbsp;Scott Goetz, professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, are co-authors of a paper published in Nature Sustainability. \u201cRoad expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin\u201d studies the progressive expansion of logging roads across the Congo Basin. By comparing older and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/remote-sensing-reveals-impact-of-logging-road-expansion-in-congo-basin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remote sensing reveals impact of logging road expansion in Congo Basin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"newstags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1647","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",640,480,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-300x225.png",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",525,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",525,394,false],"news_plugin_small":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-80x80.png",80,80,true],"team-500px":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-500x480.png",500,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",640,480,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",640,480,false],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",640,480,false],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-100x100.png",100,100,true],"photoswipe_thumbnails":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-300x225.png",300,225,true],"photoswipe_full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419.png",640,480,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews3_100419-272x182.png",272,182,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Nadine Laporte, research professor in the School of Forestry, and&nbsp;Scott Goetz, professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, are co-authors of a paper published in Nature Sustainability. \u201cRoad expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin\u201d studies the progressive expansion of logging roads across the Congo Basin. By comparing older and newer roads of different types, whether primary, secondary or logging roads derived from Landsat image time series data, the scientists show why the dramatic expansion is causing broad concern for forest ecosystems, carbon storage and wildlife vulnerable to subsistence hunting\u2014and how decommissioning roads after logging&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"siccs-ecoinfo","url":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/author\/siccs-ecoinfo\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}