W. Baker, and Y. Cai The r.le programs for multiscale analysis of landscape structure using the GRASS geographical information system Landsc. Ecol. 7 1992 291 302
J. Bogaert, P. Van Hecke, R. Moermans, and I. Impens Twist number statistics as an additional measure of habitat perimeter irregularity Environ. Ecol. Stat. 6 1999 275 290 (Pubitemid 30034418)
J. Cardille, and J. Foley Agricultural land-use change in Brazilian Amazônia between 1980 and 1995: evidence from integrated satellite and census data Remote Sens. Environ. 87 2003 551 562 (Pubitemid 38184710)
S. de Barros Ferraz, C. Vettorazzi, D. Theobald, and M. Ballester Landscape dynamics of Amazonian deforestation between 1984 and 2002 in central Rondônia, Brazil: assessment and future scenarios For. Ecol. Manage. 204 2005 67 83 (Pubitemid 40015489)
P. Fearnside Amazonian deforestation and global warming: carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest For. Ecol. Manage. 80 1996 21 34
P. Fearnside Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil Environ. Conserv. 1 2001 23 28
R. Forman Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions 1995 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
GRASS Development Team Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project 2005 ITC-irst Trento, Italy
F. Hausdorff Dimension und ausseres Mass Math. Ann. 79 1919 157 179 (in German)
A. Imre About the ranking of isolated habitats with different shapes: an interior-to-edge ratio study Acta Biotheor. 49 2001 115 120 (Pubitemid 32579634)
N. Kenkel, and D. Walker Fractals in the biological sciences Coenoses 11 1996 77 100 (Pubitemid 28149134)
K. Kirby, W. Laurance, A. Albernaz, G. Schroth, P. Fearnside, S. Bergen, E. Venticinque, and C. da Costa The future of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Futures 38 2006 432 453 (Pubitemid 43173923)
J. Krummel, R. Gardner, G. Sugihara, R. O'Neill, and P. Coleman Landscape patterns in a disturbed environment Oikos 48 1987 321 324
E. Lambin, H. Geist, and E. Lepers Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in tropical regions Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 28 2003 205 241
E. Lambin, B. Turner, H. Geist, S. Agbola, A. Angelsen, J. Bruce, O. Coomes, R. Dirzo, G. Fischer, C. Folke, P. George, K. Homewood, J. Imbernon, R. Leemans, X. Li, E. Moran, M. Mortimore, P. Ramakrishnan, J. Richards, H. Sknes, W. Steffen, G. Stone, U. Svedin, T. Veldkamp, C. Vogel, and J. Xu The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths Global Environ. Change 11 2001 261 269 (Pubitemid 34001974)
W. Laurance, M. Cochrane, S. Bergen, P. Fearnside, P. Delamônica, C. Barber, S. D'Angelo, and T. Fernandes The future of the Brazilian Amazon Science 19 2001 438 439 (Pubitemid 32097056)
H. Li, and J. Reynolds On definition and quantification of heterogeneity Oikos 73 1995 280 284
K. McGarigal, and B. Marks FRAGSTATS: Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Quantifying Landscape Structure. Technical Report United States Department of Agriculture 1995 Pacific Northwest Research Station Oregon
B. Mertens, M.-G. Poccard-Chapuis, A.-E. Piketty, and A. Venturieri Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Pará Agric. Econ. 27 2002 269 294 (Pubitemid 35464801)
B. Milne Measuring fractal dimensions of landscapes Appl. Math. Comput. 27 1988 67 79
M. Monmonier Measures of pattern complexity for chloropletic maps Am. Cartographer 1 1974 159 169
D. Moser, H. Zechmeister, C. Plutzar, N. Sauberer, T. Wrbka, and G. Grabherr Landscape patch shape complexity as an effective measure for plant species richness in rural landscapes Landsc. Ecol. 17 2002 657 669 (Pubitemid 36137456)
D. Nepstad, D. McGrath, A. Alencar, A.C. Barros, G. Carvalho, M. Santilli, C. del, and M. Vera Diaz Frontier governance in Amazonia Science 295 2002 629 631 (Pubitemid 34111808)
R. O'Neill, J. Krummel, R. Gardner, G. Sugihara, B. Jackson, D. DeAngelis, B. Milne, M. Turner, B. Zygmunt, S. Christensen, V. Dale, and R. Graham Indices of landscape pattern Landsc. Ecol. 1 1988 153 162
M. Pedlowski, V. Dale, E. Matricardi, and E. da Silva Filho Patterns and impacts of deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil Landsc. Urban Plann. 38 1997 149 157 (Pubitemid 28037998)
K. Riitters, R. O'Neill, C. Hunsaker, J. Wickham, D. Yankee, S. Timmins, K. Jones, and B. Jackson A factor analysis of landscape pattern and structure metrics Landsc. Ecol. 10 1995 23 39 (Pubitemid 26447606)
S. Saura, and J. Martinez-Milan Sensitivity of landscape pattern metrics to map spatial extent Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens. 67 2001 1027 1036 (Pubitemid 32818321)
B. Soares-Filho, A. Alencar, D. Nepstad, G. Cerqueira, M. Del Carmen Vera Diaz, S. Rivero, L. Solórzano, and E. Voll Simulating the response of land-cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: the Santarém-Cuiabá corridor Global Change Biol. 10 2004 745 764 (Pubitemid 38728003)
B. Soares-Filho, D. Nepstad, L. Curran, G.C. Cerqueira, R. Garcia, C.A. Ramos, E. Voll, A. McDonald, P. Lefebvre, and P. Schlesinger Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin Nature 440 2006 520 523
J. Tukey Exploratory Data Analysis 1977 Addison-Wesley Reading, MA
M. Turner Landscape ecology: the effect of pattern on process Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20 1989 179 197
M. Turner Spatial and temporal analysis of landscape pattern Landsc. Ecol. 4 1990 21 30 (Pubitemid 20407265)
M. Turner, and C. Ruscher Changes in landscape patterns in Georgia, USA Landsc. Ecol. 1 1988 241 251
C. Uhl, R. Buschbacher, and E. Serrão Abandoned pastures in eastern Amazônia. 1. Patterns of plant succession J. Ecol. 76 1988 663 681 (Pubitemid 20417567)
H. Veloso, A. Rangel Filho, and J. Lima Classicaão da Vegetaão Brasileira, Adaptada a um Sistema Universal, IBGE 1991 Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Estudos Ambientais Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese)
K. With, and A. King Dispersal success on fractal landscapes: a consequence of lacunarity thresholds Landsc. Ecol. 14 1999 73 82 (Pubitemid 29100896)
