Burning biodiversity: Fuelwood harvesting causes forest degradation in human-dominated tropical landscapes

This study provides an approximation of the potential impact of fuelwood harvesting in one of the most threatened tropical biodiversity conservation hotspots, the northern portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We test the relationship between fuelwood consumption and per capita income for 270 ho...

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Main Authors: Maria Joana Specht, Severino Rodrigo Ribeiro Pinto, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Marcelo Tabarelli, Felipe P.L. Melo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000894