Forest restoration can increase the Rio Doce watershed resilience

Rio Doce watershed has centuries of land degradation and it was the main victim of the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history. This process of deforestation and soil erosion could be significantly mitigated if compliance to the new Brazilian Native Vegetation Protection Law (NVPL) wou...

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Main Authors: Aliny P.F. Pires, Camila L. Rezende, Eduardo D. Assad, Rafael Loyola, Fabio R. Scarano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064417300676