@InProceedings{ValerianoSant:2003:EfLaCo,
               author = "Valeriano, Dalton de Morisson and Santos, Janaina Santana Maia",
          affiliation = "{National Institute for Space Research} and S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos 
                         Campos-S{\~a}o Paulo,Brazil",
                title = "Effectiveness of land cover regulations for biodiversity 
                         conservation:a remote sensing and landscape simulation study in a 
                         mountain range in Southeastern Brazil",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2003",
         organization = "IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 
                         (IGARSS).",
            publisher = "IEEE",
              address = "Piscataway",
             keywords = "Tropical forest, Southeast Brazil, land cover, change.",
             abstract = "The Tropical Forest of Southeast Brazil is presently highly 
                         degraded as consequence of intense land cover change that took 
                         place in the past few centuries.Most of its cover is now reduced 
                         to sparsely distributed forest fragments which implies in serious 
                         threat to the existence f plant and wildlife pupations that depend 
                         n this habitat. In order to alleviate such threat the connectivity 
                         among these isolated forest patches should be increased by the 
                         restoration f the natural vegetation in areas between patches. The 
                         Brazilian Forest Protection Act (FPA)was created in 1965 as a 
                         legal apparatus t protect natural vegetation n cover and to reduce 
                         the impact of deforestation in water availability and quality. 
                         However the proper observation n of the criteria for land cover 
                         protecting n stated in the FPA can also improve connectivity f the 
                         vegetation in cover. This work presents an example of the 
                         usefulness of the FPA improving the connectivity forest cover 
                         between two large Conservation Units (The Itatiaia National Park 
                         and the Campos d Jord{\~a}o State Forest)with the application n f 
                         remote sensing techniques for the diagnosis f the present status f 
                         the spatial distribution f the vegetation n cover and the use of 
                         geographic information n system f r the determination n of areas 
                         under the protection of the FPA.",
  conference-location = "Toulouse, France",
      conference-year = "21-25 July 2003",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
            isbn/issn = "0-7803-7929",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "IEEE",
        urlaccessdate = "08 maio 2024"
}