Fig. 1: Mapped tree cover across areas of different tree densities. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Mapped tree cover across areas of different tree densities.

From: More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

Fig. 1

a Percentage tree cover, at 1 km spatial resolution; bh examples of predicted tree cover overlaid on Google Maps satellite imagery (Imagery © 2022 CNES / Airbus, Landsat / Copernicus, Maxar Technologies, Map data ©2022), in: b a village in Senegal; c agricultural fields in Burkina Faso; d an urban environment in Khartoum, Sudan; e Miombo woodlands in Angola; f deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); g Eucalyptus plantations in South Africa; h terrace farming in Zimbabwe. The ocean basemaps in a are from www.naturalearth.com.

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