The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 19
• Main Authors: Correia Filho, Washington Luiz Félix, de Oliveira-Júnior, José Francisco, Santiago, Dimas de Barros, Abdo, Hazem Ghassan, Almohamad, Hussein, Al Dughairi, Ahmed Abdullah, da Silva Junior, Carlos Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2023; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Active fire; Adequacy; Agribusiness; Agricultural expansion; Agricultural land; Agriculture; Autumn; cerrado; Components; Correlation analysis; cropland; data collection; Deforestation; Earth and Environmental Science; Economic development; Ecosystems; Environment; Environmental aspects; Environmental assessment; Evaluation; Evapotranspiration; Fires; Forest & brush fires; High altitude; human development; Human Development Index; indigenous species; Land cover; Land use; Land use and land cover; land use and land cover maps; Livestock; Precipitation; Principal components analysis; rain; Rainfall; Remote sensing; savannas; Shrublands; Social factors; Socioeconomic aspects; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Spatial analysis; Spring; Spring (season); Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Transition zone; variance; Vegetation; Brazil; Cerrado Biome; Active fire; Environment; Agribusiness; Land use and land cover; Human Development Index

Background The Cerrado is the most biodiverse savanna and maintains other biomes. Aware of its significance, this paper evaluated the Brazilian Cerrado’s climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects using remote sensing data and spatial statistics (correlation analysis and principal components...