## The Atlantic Forest of South America: spatiotemporal dynamics of remaining vegetation and implications for conservation
This project presents the codes and data set used in the analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the remaining vegetation for the entire Atlantic Forest (AF).
We present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of 34 years of AF landscape change between 1986 and 2020. We analyzed landscape metrics of forest vegetation only (FV), forest plus other natural vegetation (NV), and investigated the sensitivity of metrics to linear infrastructure.
These analyses were produced at the [Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab][1] (LEEC), [State University of São Paulo (Unesp) - Rio Claro][2], São Paulo, Brazil.
All landscape metrics were processed in [GRASS GIS][3] through the [R][4] language, using the rgrass package. We calculated six landscape metrics: number of fragments, fragment size, edge area, isolation, functional connectivity, and distance from Protected Areas (PA) and Indigenous Territories (IT).
If you have questions, please contact:
- Maurício Vancine <<mauricio.vancine@gmail.com>>
- Milton Cezar Ribeiro <<miltinho.astronauta@gmail.com>>
For more information, please refer to the publications below.
## References
Vancine, M. H., Muylaert, R. L., Niebuhr, B. B., Oshima, J. E. F., Tonetti, V., Bernardo R., De Angelo, C., Rosa, M. R., Grohmann, C. H., & Ribeiro M. C. (2023). The Atlantic Forest of South America: spatiotemporal dynamics of remaining vegetation and implications for conservation. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.16.558076
Vancine, M. H., Muylaert, R. L., Niebuhr, B. B., Oshima, J. E. F., Tonetti, V., Bernardo R., De Angelo, C., Rosa, M. R., Grohmann, C. H., & Ribeiro M. C. The Atlantic Forest of South America: spatiotemporal dynamics of remaining vegetation and implications for conservation. In review.
Ribeiro, M. C., Metzger, J. P., Martensen, A. C., Ponzoni, F. J., & Hirota, M. M. (2009). The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation. Biological conservation, 142(6), 1141-1153.
[1]: https://leec.eco.br/
[2]: https://www.rc.unesp.br/
[3]: https://grass.osgeo.org/
[4]: https://www.r-project.org/
