How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-200

  Ferraz, Silvio F B ^a   Ferraz, Katia M P M B ^a   Cassiano, Carla C ^a   Brancalion, Pedro Henrique S ^a   da Luz, Daniela T A ^a   Azevedo, Thais N ^a   Tambosi, Leandro R ^a   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Atlantic Forest; Biodiversity; Corumbata ; Historical land use; Landscape dynamics; Pasture; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894317900     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-9988-z     Document Type: Article

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