Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India
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The study cannot rule out potential influence of pre-existing site differences from land-use history and species turnover across space on results.
“we cannot rule out the potential influence of pre-existing site differences incurred by land-use history (13) and species turnover across space (beta-diversity) (48), both of which are often difficult to ascertain.”
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The Forest cover analysis and Impact Model sections describe checks for pre-establishment trends and controls for site characteristics, but do not say that land-use history could have left influential pre-existing site differences. Searches for land-use history, historical land use and site differences found no passage making that point. The separate citation (48) accompanies the species-turnover part of the citing sentence, so it is not assessed against this source. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Coleman, E. A., Schultz, B., Ramprasad, V., Fischer, H., Rana, P., Filippi, A. M., Güneralp, B., Ma, A., Rodriguez Solorzano, C., Guleria, V., Rana, R., & Fleischman, F.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Centre for Ecology Development and Research (IN)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- Indian Institute of Forest Management (IN)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Coleman, Eric A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Sustainability
- Published
- 2021-09-13
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 997-1004
- ISSN
- 2398-9629 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3201331982
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 10
- FWCI
- 12.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Sustainability (publishedVersion)
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC): NNX17AK14G.
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- forest canopy cover, rural livelihoods, forest composition, broadleaf trees, climate change mitigation, deforestation, Himachal Pradesh, Landsat imagery, household livelihoods, program effectiveness
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