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The use of species distribution models to predict the spatial distribution of deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon

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  • de Souza, Rodrigo Antônio
  • De Marco, Paulo

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The prevention of deforestation in rainforests requires the identification of where facilitating and mitigating factors will combine and increase the likelihood of deforestation. This approach, which relates a geographic space with an environmental space of factors to predict where new deforestation will occur, is very similar to the approaches used to predict species distributions. Thus, we believe that deforestation can be treated as a “species” and that its future occurrence can be determined using species distribution models.

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  • de Souza, Rodrigo Antônio & De Marco, Paulo, 2014. "The use of species distribution models to predict the spatial distribution of deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 291(C), pages 250-259.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:291:y:2014:i:c:p:250-259
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.007
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