Correspondence:
We find your conclusion premature that there is no longer a direct correlation between food production in Brazil and deforestation in the Amazon.
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...