Abstract:In recent years, anthropogenic actions have intensified forest fragmentation, causing several damages to the landscape's natural components, as the loss of biodiversity. This study aims to present an analysis of the forest fragments in a conservation unit located at southern of Brazil. The evaluation was carried out for the years 1998, 2008 and 2018, by using landscape metrics and classification of remote sensing imagery of the Landsat satellite. The following metrics were analyzed: area and edge, shape, core … Show more
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