Assessment of forest fragmentation in the REDD+ priority zones using two land use/land cover (LULC) sources in the tropical Andean landscape of Ecuador

• Juan Paredes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Change Laboratory, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador, Fundacion Ecosistemas en Acción (Eco-Acción), Tena, Napo, Ecuador

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• Jin Kyoung Noh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Ecosystems and Global Change Research Group, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador

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• Nikolay Aguirre,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales del Ambiente y Biodiversidad (CITIAB), Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador

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• Yeo-Chang Youn,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Forestry and BioResouces, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

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• Pablo Cuenca

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pablo.cuenca@ikiam.edu.ec

  Affiliations Global Change Laboratory, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador, Tropical Ecosystems and Global Change Research Group, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9707-7562

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