![]() ![]() ![]() However, no statistical association between forest loss and fire was found in the eastern portion, a region that hosts a large international tourism hub. First, I found that both forest loss and fire were spatially autocorrelated and statistically associated with each other at a country scale over the study period, particularly in the western and central part of the DR. Since remotely sensed data on fire occurrence is a suitable proxy for estimating the spread of shifting agriculture, here I explore the association between forest loss and fire during the first 18 years of the 21st Century using zonal statistics and spatial autoregressive models on different spatio-temporal layouts. ![]() Although shifting agriculture by slash-and-burn methods is thought to be the main driver of forest loss in the DR, empirical evidence of this relationship is still lacking. Forest loss is an environmental issue that threatens ecosystems in the Dominican Republic (the DR). ![]()
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