Interaction of land management and araucaria trees in the maintenance of landscape diversity in the highlands of southern Brazil.

In the southern Brazilian highlands, pre-Columbian societies created domesticated landscapes through the use and management of forests, including nurse Araucaria angustifolia trees, a common conifer in these regions. Nowadays, local smallholders still use traditional practices, such as burning, to p...

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Main Authors: Rafael Barbizan Sühs, Eduardo Luís Hettwer Giehl, Nivaldo Peroni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6248941?pdf=render