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. 2013 Sep 9;8(9):e73008. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073008

Table 1. Outline of the eight land use/land cover classes used in the spatial analysis.

Land cover/Land use classes Brief description
Mangrove (Mangrv) Closed canopy Medium Forest with closed canopy of 10% to 30% occurring in tidal affected zones.
Intact natural forest (Intact) Various types of old-growth natural forests that have never been logged by the timber industry.
Logged forest (Logged) Various types of old-growth natural forests that have been logged by the timber industry using heavy machinery and networks of logging trails.
Severely degraded logged forest (Svlog) Various types of old-growth forests that have become so severely degraded by logging and fire that they no longer resemble the spectral signatures of forests.
Agro-forests/forest re-growth (Agroreg) Medium to tall agro-forests and forest re-growth including traditional rubber agro-forests, fruit gardens, and land under fallow, where forests are regenerating.
Industrial timber plantation (Indtim) Planted or recently cleared industrial scale timber plantations, as of year 2010.
Oil palm plantations (Oilpalm) Planted or recently cleared industrial scale oil palm plantations, as of year 2010.
Other land cover (Otherlc) Includes various low-canopy shrubby vegetation types.