2024
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17563
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Land-cover change in Cuba and implications for the area of distribution of a specialist’s host-plant

Claudia Nuñez-Penichet,
Juan Maita,
Jorge Soberon

Abstract: Changes in land cover directly affect biodiversity. Here, we assessed land-cover change in Cuba in the past 35 years and analyzed how this change may affect the distribution of Omphalea plants and Urania boisduvalii moths. We analyzed the vegetation cover of the Cuban archipelago for 1985 and 2020. We used Google Earth Engine to classify two satellite image compositions into seven cover types: forest and shrubs, mangrove, soil without vegetation cover, wetlands, pine forest, agriculture, and water bodies. We c… Show more

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