Spatial and temporal evolution of family-farming land use in the Tapajós region of the Brazilian Amazon

Pressures on the Brazilian Amazon forest have been accentuated by agricultural activities practiced by families encouraged to settle in this region in the 1970s by the colonization program of the government. The aims of this study were to analyze the temporal and spatial evolution of land cover and...

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Main Authors: Christine ROZON, Marc LUCOTTE, Robert DAVIDSON, Serge PAQUET, Jordan Sky OESTREICHER, Frédéric MERTENS, Carlos José SOUSA PASSOS, Christine ROMANA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2015-06-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aa/v45n2/1809-4392-aa-45-02-00203.pdf