Impact of natural climate change and historical land use on landscape development in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Climate variations and historical land use had a major impact on landscape development in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica). In southeast Brazil, rainforest expanded under warm-humid climate conditions in the late Holocene, but have been dramatically reduced in historical times. Neverth...

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Main Authors: UDO NEHREN, ANDRE KIRCHNER, DIETMAR SATTLER, ANA PAULA TURETTA, JURGEN HEINRICH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2013-06-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652013000200497&lng=en&tlng=en