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We classified multi-temporal Sentinel-2A images with machine learning algorithms and used a logistic regression model to associate topographic, anthropogenic, and land tenure variables as plausible factors in the dynamics. We carried out an accuracy assessment of the detected changes in loss and gain considering the imbalance in area proportion between the change classes and the persistence classes. We estimated a 1.4% annual loss rate and a 0.7% annual gain rate in tropical dry forest and found that the topographic variable of slope and the anthropogenic variable of distance to roads helped explain the occurrence probability of both tropical forest loss and tropical forest gain. Since the area estimation yielded a wide confidence interval for both tropical forest loss and gain despite the measures that we took to counterbalance the disproportion in areas, we cannot conclude that the loss process was more intense than the gain process, but rather that there was an equilibrium in tropical dry forest dynamics under the influence of shifting cultivation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15051471","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,7]],"date-time":"2023-03-07T01:43:35Z","timestamp":1678153415000},"page":"1471","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Tropical Dry Forest Dynamics Explained by Topographic and Anthropogenic Factors: A Case Study in Mexico"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1345-1583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Gao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones en Geograf\u00eda Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, Morelia 58190, Mexico"},{"name":"Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6422-4802","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonathan V.","family":"Sol\u00f3rzano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Posgrado en Geograf\u00eda, Centro de Investigaciones en Geograf\u00eda Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, Morelia 58190, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9681-492X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ronald C.","family":"Estoque","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-8687, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shiro","family":"Tsuyuzaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"933","DOI":"10.1641\/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: A new map of life on Earth","volume":"51","author":"Olson","year":"2001","journal-title":"BioScience"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Rzedowski, J. 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