@Article{AssisEscaAmar:2021:StBaFr,
               author = "Assis, Tain{\'a} Oliveira and Escada, Maria Isabel Sobral and 
                         Amaral, Silvana",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Effects of deforestation over the cerrado landscape: A study in 
                         the bahia frontier",
              journal = "Land",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "10",
               number = "4",
                pages = "e352",
             keywords = "landscape metrics, typology, decision tree mapping, land use and 
                         land cover (LULC).",
             abstract = "The losses in the Brazilian Cerrado raise the need to understand 
                         the border regions between human activities and Cerrado remnants. 
                         This work aims to answer the questions: How does the landscape 
                         change in a deforestation area in the Brazilian Cerrado, and where 
                         do the losses of native Cerrado occur in the landscape context? We 
                         chose the Cerrado of Bahia, an area of the agricultural frontier, 
                         and used landscape metrics, and land use and land cover data from 
                         2013 and 2020, to quantify the changes in the landscape. We built 
                         a typology of landscape patterns to classify and characterize the 
                         Cerrado landscapes, based on the landscape metrics, and land use 
                         and land cover data from TerraClass Cerrado 2013. From these 
                         parameters, a decision tree classifier enabled the classification 
                         of the landscape types. Then, we used the yearly deforestation 
                         data from PRODES Cerrado to obtain the native cover and the 
                         landscape metrics for 2020. The predominant landscape in 2013 was 
                         the Intermediate Stage of Fragmentation (32.53%), followed by the 
                         Initial Stage of Fragmentation (31.26%), Consolidated Pasture 
                         (16.4%), Consolidated Agriculture (9.78%), Mixed Landscapes 
                         (5.59%) and Native Cerrado (4.70%). The continuous Cerrado borders 
                         on areas in an initial and intermediate stage of fragmentation, 
                         putting pressure on the native area. The losses in native cover do 
                         not occur in consolidated landscapes or inside the continuous 
                         Cerrado. Instead, there is a process of vegetation conversion over 
                         the landscapes in the initial and intermediate stages of 
                         fragmentation, and landscapes where the matrix is heterogeneous. 
                         These factors signal the need to preserve the contiguous fragments 
                         of Cerrado.",
                  doi = "10.3390/land10040352",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10040352",
                 issn = "2073-445X",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "assis_effects.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "09 maio 2024"
}