Examining fragmentation and loss of primary forest in the southern Bahaman Atlantic forest of Brazil with Radar imagery
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The application of radar remote-sensing data to distinguish forest patches from cocoa planted in the shade of natural-forest trees is presented as radar unlike optical sensors is not obstructed by cloud cover and can acquire information about forest structure by penetrating in to the vegetation canopy. The results can be applied to conservation planning, especially the design and monitoring of nature reserves and the modeling of biological corridors.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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The future of the Atlantic forest in Northeastern Brazil
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Data suggesting that forests in northeastern Brazil are getting reduced to small and isolated fragments is presented based on the fruit size, the gape size of fruit eating birds and present day forest distribution. It is predicted that an important sector of the unique Atlantic forest is dying and to wait for better data on the patterns of the recruitment for several hundred tree species in northeastern Brazil is disastrous.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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The future of the Atlantic forest
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The future of Atlantic Forests in the Northeastern Brazil and these forests becoming extinct in small forest fragments due to dispersal failure is discussed. Some species may become extinct and the role of frugivores in maintaining the recruitment of flora is speculated, however there is not enough data to predict the future of the Atlantic forests.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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