Fig. 2: Counterfactual deforestation rates.
From: Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions
a, Boxplots (consisting of n = 9,000 simulated deforestation rates, each single estimate obtained from a mathematical programme considering 1,000 economic profit scenarios; details of the simulations can be found in Supplementary Methods 1) of deforestation rates. The x axis shows the start and end year of each 5 yr period. Solid vertical lines, median; crosses (x), arithmetic mean; lower and upper hinges, 25th and 75th percentiles; whiskers extend from the upper/lower hinge to the largest/smallest value no further from the hinge than 1.5 times the interquartile range. Data beyond the whiskers are ‘outliers’ and are plotted individually. b, The frequency distribution of the counterfactual deforestation rates follows a power-law relationship: N = 3,936 × \(10^{-0.88\times l_{\mathrm{class}}}\). lclass is the forest loss class.
