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| Diniz-Filho,José Alexandre Felizola; Oliveira,Guilherme de; Lobo,Fábio; Ferreira,Laerte Guimarães; Bini,Luis Mauricio; Rangel,Thiago Fernando Lopes Valle Brito. |
| The Cerrado biome, the second largest biome in Neotropical region, consists of a mosaic of different habitat types, ranging from open grasslands to dense woodlands and dry forests. An intensive recent occupation process has transformed it into the most important region for cattle ranching and intensive commodity crops in Brazil. In this study, a macroecological approach was used to evaluate broad-scale spatial patterns of habitat loss in the Brazilian Cerrado, applying a series of spatial autocorrelation and partial regression analyses to understand how the proportion of remaining natural habitats is correlated with socio-economic variables, expressing different dimensions of human occupation and climatic variation. On average, 59% of the area is occupied... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: MODIS; Brazilian Cerrado; Spatial autocorrelation. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162009000600007 |
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