A portrait of the Araucária forest in the planalto de Canoinhas hydrographic region in Santa Catarina: an analysis of the role legislations in ecosystem preservation (2000-2020)

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ag.v19i1.76404

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The Araucaria Forests, the name given to the Mixed Ombrófila Forest (FOM) ecosystem, belong to the Atlantic Forest biome and are home to a wide variety of species, the most representative of which is Araucaria angustifolia. Historical analyzes of satellite images have shown that Brazilian forest environments lost about 61 million hectares or 10% of the forest mass between 1985 and 2017. The objective here was to analyze the dynamics of FOM coverage, in the Planalto de Canoinhas Hydrographic Region, from 2000 to 2020. The applied methodology was mixed, being: use of geoprocessing on data from Fundação Mata Atlântica/INPE, landscapes and interview. Among the results, the behavior of forest spatial dispersion and the influences of environmental legislation were discussed. Among the findings, it is concluded that the data show a drop in forest loss values from the year 2008. These data show a causal relationship between environmental legislation, inspection and the reduction of FOM losses.

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2025-04-20

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DE CASTRO HORTA HOFFMANN MARTINS, Felipe; WERNECK RIBEIRO, Eduardo Augusto; RHODEN, Sandro Augusto. A portrait of the Araucária forest in the planalto de Canoinhas hydrographic region in Santa Catarina: an analysis of the role legislations in ecosystem preservation (2000-2020). Ateliê Geográfico Journal, Goiânia, v. 19, n. 1, p. 363–391, 2025. DOI: 10.5216/ag.v19i1.76404. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/76404. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.

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