Authors: Santos Daniel Chicas, Nobuya Mizoue, Helen X. H. Bao, Ana Buchadas, Shizuka Hashimoto, Jaboury Ghazoul, Tetsuji Ota, Jair Gaspar Valladarez, Khin Thu Wint Kyaw, Matthias Baumann
Year: 2026
Status: Revised and Resubmitted
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Abstract
Deforestation assessments still treat tropical moist forest loss as a uniform process, and do not distinguish the frontier dynamics that shape where and how forests are lost and the drivers associated with them. Here, we develop a regional spatially explicit frontier classification for Central America’s tropical moist forest by combining annual 30-m forest-change data (1990-2023) with a frontier-metrics framework aggregated to 1.5-km cells. We derive three frontier typologies