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Table 2 Area in km2 of forest loss at the country level

From: Fires in the South American Chaco, from dry forests to wetlands: response to climate depends on land cover

Forest loss1

Argentina

Paraguay

Bolivia

Brazil

Burnt

19,720 km2 (38.4%)

7005 km2 (15.3%)

688.6 km2 (7.9%)

30.6 km2 (65%)

Unburnt

31,688 km2 (61.6%)

38,747 km2 (84.7%)

8042 km2 (92.1%)

16.5 km2 (35%)

Total

51,409 km2 (20.7%)

45,752 km2 (28.6%)

8731 km2 (12.2%)

47 km2 (10.6%)

  1. 1Areas of forest loss are calculated as the surface of tree cover in 2001 that is transformed to any other LC type by 2019 using the classification of the LandCoverCCI product. Fire detections between 2001 and 2019 come from the FireCCI51 product. Percentages of the Burnt and Unburnt rows show the relative burnt or unburnt forest loss based on the Total Chaco forest loss surface within each country between 2001 and 2019. Percentages of the Total row show the fraction of forest loss by 2019 relative to each country’s total Chaco forests by 2001