Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.

However, in regions where the sylvatic habitat and its fauna are thinned by economic exploitation and human habitation, such as in newly deforested areas, piassava palm culture areas, and some parts of the Amazon region, a human transmission cycle may develop as the insects search for new food sources.

Instead of trapping precipitation, which then percolates to groundwater systems, deforested areas become sources of surface water runoff, which moves much faster than subsurface flows.

With the advent of agriculture, larger areas began to be deforested, and fire became the prime tool to clear land for crops.

It is anticipated that all the island's rainforests, excluding those in protected areas and the steepest eastern mountain slopes, will have been deforested by 2025.

For instance, water bodies in a region that has been deforested or having erosion will have different water quality than those in areas that are forested.

It is also found in woodlands, dehesas ( almost deforested pasture areas ), kermes oak wood, oaks wood, garrigue, maquis, hills, gorges, canyons and rocky hillsides of the entire Mediterranean area.

The term reforestation is similar to afforestation, the process of restoring and recreating areas of woodlands or forests that may have existed long ago but were deforested or otherwise removed at some point in the past.

Large areas were deforested.

The removal of trees causes higher rates of erosion, increasing risks of landslides, which is a direct threat to many people living close to deforested areas.

There have been efforts to cultivate artificial forests, mostly of eucalyptus and other trees in areas such as Zacatépetl, which had been completely deforested.

These environments include sphagnum bogs and partially deforested areas.

Paktika, like many other areas of Afghanistan, has been severely deforested.

Developed from hollow tree trunks, and used by cultures living in deforested areas, drums served as an early form of long distance communication, and were used during ceremonial and religious functions.

At the end of the 19th century and into the beginning of the 20th century, much of what is now the Allegheny National Forest and surrounding areas were deforested, in part to make way for the oil boom that followed Edwin Drake's discovery of oil near Titusville on August 27, 1859, but also for wood chemicals.

These practices have given rise to sections of dense tree plantations alternating with deforested areas.

Bushes, grasslands, deforested areas cover the north and east.

China has deforested most of its historically wooded areas.

Molave is divided into two topographical areas, namely: the lowland area which covers 30 % of the total land area is composed of nine ( 9 ) barangays and is situated in the east and southwest portion is generally flat, swampy and marshy ; while the upland portion which covers 70 % of the total land area is hilly and mostly deforested.

The areas where the species was discovered have been deforested.

Fortunately, the deforested land was suitable for farming.

As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes and the town had to be abandoned.

Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest.

From the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land dating between 0 – 1250 AD, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, an international non-profit association, that brings together conservation groups and palm-oil firms, says that it " will not certify oil grown on land that was deforested to farm the crop ".

It had been recorded that minus the marshes and gully regions, during the 1630s much of the desirable land had been deforested across the entire island.

Since the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have also been discovered on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, furthering the evidence about Pre-Columbian civilizations.

Around 1790, large part of the Rhine Valley were deforested, creating arable land, fields and pasture to feed the population.

Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, Acre.

Since the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land in Acre dating between 0 – 1250 AD, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.

At the Plum Island estuary, Massachusetts ( U. S. A ), stratigraphic cores revealed that during the 18th and 19th century the marsh prograded over subtidal and mudflat environments to increase in area from 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup > to 9 km < sup > 2 </ sup > after European settlers deforested the land uptream and increased the rate of sediment supply.

However, with road building by the state, logging ( some legal but mostly illegal ) by Thai companies, enclosure of land in national parks, and influx of immigrants from the lowlands, swidden fields can not be fallowed, can not re-grow, and swiddening results in large swathes of deforested mountainsides.

However from the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.

They are typically found in open steppes with scattered bushes and trees, but have adapted to human disturbances, taking advantage of human-made watering holes and large patches of deforested land.

Since humans began clearing the forest during the New Stone Age, most of the land has now been deforested, speeding the natural processes of erosion.

The fierce battles of World War II had deforested huge tracts of the Soviet Union and the concern for replacing and increasing forest land became a major issue in the immediate post-war years.

When Darcy learned of a case to regain half of the land, he deforested it and moved the valuable timber to his land in Minworth, leaving a swampy area which was prone to flooding and with poor quality soil for agriculture.

These retailers have, in turn, put pressure on Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, André Maggi Group, and Dreyfus to prove their soya was not grown on recently deforested land in the Amazon.

In July 2006, Cargill reportedly joined other soy businesses in Brazil in a two-year moratorium on the purchase of soybeans from newly deforested land.

At present, the oil and gas industry is responsible for the majority of forestry operations currently in progress in the region, based on its need for service roads and deforested operational land.

Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest.

Since the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.