Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2255-2272

  de Rezende, Camila Linhares ^a,b,c   Uezu, Alexandre ^d   Scarano, Fabio Rubio ^a,b   Araujo, Dorothy Sue Dunn ^a,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Fund o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Estadual do Ambiente INEA   (Brazil)

^d Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS JARDIM BOTÂNICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest restoration; Landscape dynamics; Natural regeneration; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84941994239     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-0980-y     Document Type: Article

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