Luciano M. Verdade Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge Carlos I. Pina
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in altered and/or changing environments that apparently lost most of their structure and functionality. Space and time heterogeneities are considered in order to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of species and the various processes that mold them. The book also discusses at...
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity gove...
Carla Gheler-Costa Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge Luciano Martin
The state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of Sao Paulo. It is...
The state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms o...
