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Table 2 Source of field data for development of timber harvesting emission factors (ELE extracted log emission, LDF logging damage factor, LIF logging infrastructure factor)

From: Greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest degradation: an underestimated source

Region

ELE

LDF

LIF

Country

Central Africa

0.25

0.5

0.24

Republic of Congo

Rest of Africa

0.37

0.67

0.24

Ghana

Central America and Caribbean

0.28

1.26

0.27a

Belize

Andean countriesb (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela)

0.30

1.23

0.27a

Bolivia

Brazil

0.38

0.71

0.27a

Brazil

Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana

0.36

0.99

0.98

Guyana

Asia

0.25

0.57

0.67

Indonesia

  1. All factors are in units of Mg C m−3
  2. aThe values for the LIF are from Feldpausch et al. [9]
  3. bThese countries are mostly Andean but grouped into once class