Spatiotemporal dynamics reveals forest rejuvenation, fragmentation, and edge effects in an Atlantic Forest hotspot, the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil
Fig 5
Forest losses over the last decades in the Pernambuco Endemism Center.
Section (A) shows an overview of the annual deforestation rates (total, older, and younger forest losses) and the deforestation accumulation from 1987 to 2017. Section (B) displays the losses in very small (< 10 ha), small (10–100 ha), medium (100–1,000 ha), and large (> 1,000 ha) fragments. The dotted horizontal line is the average annual deforestation rate. Section (C) shows an overview of the deforestation accumulation for each municipality of the PEC, from 1987 to 2017. The municipalities’ identification is provided in Fig 1. The layer of administrative boundaries used in this map was obtained from the open-access dataset provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).