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Belize is a Central American country that is known for its high biodiversity. According to the Water Center of the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) and NASA, Belize’s forest cover decreased from 75.9% in late 1980 to 62.7% in 2010. In this project, we developed a spatial model of deforestation in Belize. We hypothesized that factors influencing the potential of deforestation in Belize included elevation, distance to human-built facilities, distance to roads, and whether an area is protected. We performed a binary logistic regression to generate a best-fit model of deforestation probability. Whether an area is protected, and the distance to the nearest human-built facilities were statistically significant predictors of deforestation in Belize.
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Zheng, Xinyi and Fan, Rui "Predicting Probability of Deforestation in Belize," Atlas of Maine: Vol. 2015: No. 2, Article 7.Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/atlas_docs/vol2015/iss2/7