Jean‐françois Bastin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4014953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean‐françois Bastin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean‐françois |
| FAMILY NAME | Bastin |
| SIGNATURE | BASTIN J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liège |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2602-7247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Protected area creation and its limited effect on deforestation: Insights from the Kiziba-Baluba hunting domain (DR Congo)
The Kiziba-Baluba hunting domain (KBHD) is located near the city of Lubumbashi. • The increasing human pressure induces forest cover loss within the KBHD. • Savanna, which extent in the landscape, constitutes the actual dominant land cover in the KBHD. • The establishment of the KBHD in an anthropized region failed to stop deforestation. The study examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of landscape anthropization in the Kiziba-Baluba Hunting Domain…
Scaling up the assessment of logging’s impact on forest structure in Central Africa using field and UAV data
A third of the forest area in Central Africa has been granted to logging companies. Logging is highly selective in the region, with an average of 0.7–4.0 trees harvested per ha, but its direct impact on forest structure and the spatial variation of this impact remain understudied. Here, we investigated the direct impact of logging on forest structure, we related this impact to logging intensity and canopy opening. We compiled unique datasets coll…
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair
Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation continue unabated. No clear evidence exists to suggest that these initiatives are working. A key reason for this apparent ineffectiveness could lie in the failure to recognize the agency of all stakeholders involved. Landscapes do not ha…
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires
Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…
The global tree restoration potential
The potential for global forest cover The restoration of forested land at a global scale could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. Bastin et al. used direct measurements of forest cover to generate a model of forest restoration potential across the globe (see the Perspective by Chazdon and Brancalion). Their spatially explicit maps show how much additional tree cover could exist outside of existing forests and agricultura…
Feeding ecology of bonobos living in forest‐savannah mosaics: Diet seasonal variation and importance of fallback foods
Primates along with many other animal taxa are forced to cope with large shifts in basic ecological conditions because of rapid anthropogenically induced changes of their habitats. One of the coping strategies for primates is to adjust their diet to these changes, and several studies have demonstrated the importance of fallback resources for this. Bonobos, like chimpanzees, might be particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation because of thei…
Etre et avoir à Kinshasa: Expériences de reportage informel au Congo-Zaïre
Experiences de reportage pour la radio-television belge au Congo de 1980 a 2003. Il n’y a pas de progression logique dans le deroulement des faits mais une succession d’experiences originales, discontinues, peu previsibles, temoignant sans doute d’un fonctionnement similaire de la societe congolaise, souvent qualifie d’informel. Cette succession d’experiences pose une question lancinante : comment voir sans etre vu ? Comment observer sans etre so…
Etre et avoir à Kinshasa: Expériences de reportage informel au Congo-Zaïre
Experiences de reportage pour la radio-television belge au Congo de 1980 a 2003. Il n’y a pas de progression logique dans le deroulement des faits mais une succession d’experiences originales, discontinues, peu previsibles, temoignant sans doute d’un fonctionnement similaire de la societe congolaise, souvent qualifie d’informel. Cette succession d’experiences pose une question lancinante : comment voir sans etre vu ? Comment observer sans etre so…
Feeding ecology of bonobos living in forest‐savannah mosaics: Diet seasonal variation and importance of fallback foods
Primates along with many other animal taxa are forced to cope with large shifts in basic ecological conditions because of rapid anthropogenically induced changes of their habitats. One of the coping strategies for primates is to adjust their diet to these changes, and several studies have demonstrated the importance of fallback resources for this. Bonobos, like chimpanzees, might be particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation because of thei…
The global tree restoration potential
The potential for global forest cover The restoration of forested land at a global scale could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. Bastin et al. used direct measurements of forest cover to generate a model of forest restoration potential across the globe (see the Perspective by Chazdon and Brancalion). Their spatially explicit maps show how much additional tree cover could exist outside of existing forests and agricultura…
The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair
Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation continue unabated. No clear evidence exists to suggest that these initiatives are working. A key reason for this apparent ineffectiveness could lie in the failure to recognize the agency of all stakeholders involved. Landscapes do not ha…
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires
Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
Protected area creation and its limited effect on deforestation: Insights from the Kiziba-Baluba hunting domain (DR Congo)
The Kiziba-Baluba hunting domain (KBHD) is located near the city of Lubumbashi. • The increasing human pressure induces forest cover loss within the KBHD. • Savanna, which extent in the landscape, constitutes the actual dominant land cover in the KBHD. • The establishment of the KBHD in an anthropized region failed to stop deforestation. The study examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of landscape anthropization in the Kiziba-Baluba Hunting Domain…
Scaling up the assessment of logging’s impact on forest structure in Central Africa using field and UAV data
A third of the forest area in Central Africa has been granted to logging companies. Logging is highly selective in the region, with an average of 0.7–4.0 trees harvested per ha, but its direct impact on forest structure and the spatial variation of this impact remain understudied. Here, we investigated the direct impact of logging on forest structure, we related this impact to logging intensity and canopy opening. We compiled unique datasets coll…
Geography (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agroforestry (2 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)