Municipalities at differente deforestation stages in Caatinga

Deforestation stage changes between 1991 and 2010

Def. Stage 1991 Def. Stage 2010 n NVC change mean NVC change SD
Initial Initial 432 -2.65 5.38
Initial Intermediate 76 -11.94 6.59
Initial Advanced 0
Intermediate Initial 58 11.00 6.04
Intermediate Intermediate 330 -1.96 8.09
Intermediate Advanced 85 -14.81 7.92
Advanced Initial 0
Advanced Intermediate 11 12.92 8.47
Advanced Advanced 215 -4.09 5.66
Total 1207 -3.36 8.38

Repeated-measures ANOVA

GLMs - quadratic models

Spatial autocorrelation

Model Moran’s I p value
IDHM_E 0.42 0
IDHM_L 0.18 0
IDHM_R 0.18 0
expov 0.35 0
gini 0.24 0
u5mort 0.21 0

SARAR robustness test

Outcome NVC NVC^2
GLM with CBPS weights
IDHM_E
IDHM_R 5.408e-04** -6.720e-06***
IDHM_L 4.672e-04** -4.811e-06***
expov -0.198*** 0.002***
gini -9.052e-04*** 1.053e-05***
u5mort -0.115*** 0.001***
SARAR models
IDHM_E
IDHM_R 4.311e-04** -5.954e-06***
IDHM_L -1.692e-06*
expov -0.070* 0.001***
gini
u5mort -0.03* 3.504e-04**