How involved are they really? A comparative network analysis of the institutional drivers of local actor inclusion Reply

摘要

Skutsch et al. criticized the results of our recently published article, which explores the relationship between land change and land tenure in Mexico (Bonilla-Moheno et al., 2013). Specifically, they question our methodology and consequently the conclusions, which they argue are biased for the following reasons: “(a) the use of MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) data to measure deforestation, because the spatial resolution of this imagery (pixel size around 250 m, or 6.25 ha) does not permit a good estimation and much deforestation would go undetected at this scale, for example small scale clearances associated with unsustainable shifting cultivation and clearance for grazing, and; (b) inclusion in the sample of only those municipalities which have >80% of their productive land under a given tenure type”.