The Sustainable Settlements Project (PAS –Projeto Assentamentos Sustentáveis in Portuguese) was initiated in 2012, with the support of the Amazon Fund and the FVPP (Live, Produce and Preserve Foundation in the Portuguese acronym), with the challenge of proposing and implementing a model that associates increased income for family farmers and reduced deforestation levels in Land Reform.
Quantitative reconstruction of vegetation cover from modern pollen rain in the Cerrado biome of Brazil
Quantitative reconstruction of vegetation cover from modern pollen rain in the Cerrado biome of Brazil
Fossil pollen assemblages are an important tool to reconstruct vegetation variability at centennial and millennial-scales. However, in the Cerrado biome of Brazil, the influence of the local vegetation, the heterogeneity of the landscape and the accuracy of pollen...