Data and Code: Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural-urban landscape

Data & Code to reproduce the analysis published in: "Nolte C, Meyer S, Sims K, Thompson J (2019) Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural-urban landscape. Conservation Letters" Includes data on 220,187 individual parcels (>1ha) in Massachusetts, including 26 years of land cover change, protection dates and types, as well as geophysical and demographic characteristics.本数据集与配套代码可复现发表于《保护通讯》（Conservation Letters）2019年刊发的论文《自愿性永久性土地保护可降低城乡景观中的森林流失与开发活动》（原标题：Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural-urban landscape，作者：Nolte C、Meyer S、Sims K、Thompson J）中的分析内容。该数据集涵盖马萨诸塞州（Massachusetts）境内220,187块面积大于1公顷的独立地块，包含26年的土地覆盖变化、保护日期与类型，以及地球物理和人口统计特征数据。