Atlantic Forest and Lacustrine System of the middle Rio Doce - Brazil

The LTER project in the middle Rio Doce watershed, Southeast Brazil, calls attention to the importance of the system (> 150 lakes) and mantaining a considerable part of the original Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s most diverse and threatened ecosystem: 260 mammals species of which 30% are protected within the Rio Doce State Park together with 325 bird species and nothing less than 7 Primates!, 20,000 plant species of which 1,129 within the Rio Doce Park. The site is located within the "Steel Valley" and surrounded by 19 municipalities which represent a considerable source of pressures together with extense Eucalyptus spp plantations, mining, exotic species and abandoned pastureland.

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Provenance
Publisher Long-Term Ecosystem Research in Europe; Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq
Contributor DEIMS-SDR Site and Dataset registry deims.org
Publication Year 2016
Rights No conditions apply to access and use; no limitations to public access
OpenAccess true
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Version 3.2.1
Discipline Environmental Monitoring
Spatial Coverage (-42.551W, -19.683S, -42.551E, -19.683N)