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LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND LAND-USE/LAND-COVER DYNAMICS IN RONDÔNIA, BRAZILIAN AMAZON.


Mateus Batistella

October 2001



TABLE OF CONTENTS

COMMITTEE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
ABSTRACT
1. MOTIVATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE IN RONDÔNIA, BRAZILIAN AMAZON
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Hypotheses and research questions
1.3. What to expect
2. ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL SETTING: THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A COMPARATIVE STUDY
2.1. Amazônia: a land in search of its destiny
2.2. The fate of Rondônia: rural development vs. landscape transformation
2.3. Why Machadinho and Anari?
2.4. The landscape in Machadinho and Anari: background data
2.4.1. Geographic location, boundaries, and settlement architectures
2.4.2. Climate
2.4.3. Geology
2.4.4. Geomorphology and hydrology
2.4.5. Soils
2.4.6. Vegetation
2.4.7. Fauna
2.5. People, time, and labor: the annual cycle of rural production systems in Machadinho and Anari
3. VEGETATION STRUCTURE AS AN INDICATOR FOR LAND- COVER DYNAMICS ASSESSMENT IN THE AMAZON
3.1. Disturbance and secondary succession in the Amazon: short review and motivation
3.2. Data collection
3.2.1. Sampling strategy
3.2.2. Database implementation
3.3. Data analysis
3.3.1. Descriptive comparisons through photos and vegetation profiles
3.3.2. Variables analyzed
3.3.3. Integration of spectral data
3.3.4. Statistical analysis
3.4. Vegetation structure of secondary succession and forest in Machadinho and Anari
3.4.1. Phyto-physiognomy and general patterns of succession classes and forest
3.4.2. What makes a secondary succession stage?
3.4.3. The spectral response to vegetation structure
3.5. The role of vegetation structure and remote sensing for the study of secondary succession dynamics in colonization areas of Amazônia
3.6. Trends in research of tropical forest secondary succession
4. LULC DYNAMICS: THE COLONIZATION IMPACT
4.1. Geotechnologies and LULC dynamics in Amazônia: potentials and pitfalls
4.2. Methodological approach
4.2.1. Multi-temporal analysis: what need have I for this?
4.2.2. Pre-classification techniques
4.2.3. LULC classification
4.2.4. Post-classification procedures and GIS manipulation
4.3. Land-Use/Land-Cover (LULC) dynamics
4.3.1. Machadinho and Anari: general spatial trends in LULC
4.3.2. Deforestation, production, and secondary succession: different processes
4.3.3. Do communal forest reserves make a difference in Machadinho?
4.3.4. Roads: the path for lot occupation
4.3.5. Property-based analysis of LULC
4.4. The colonization impact in Machadinho and AnariThe colonization impact in Machadinho and Anari
4.4.1. Methodological and operational issues
4.4.2. Main findings and their meanings
4.4.3. Trajectories of LULC and trends for the near future
5. LANDSCAPE CHANGE DESCRIBED BY SELECTED METRICS
5.1. Why study landscape change in Rondônia?
5.2. Conceptual and methodological approach
5.3. Data and methods
5.4. Spatial pattern and process in Machadinho and Anari: metrics and trends
5.4.1. Landscape: a broad comparison between the study sites
5.4.2. Class: understanding LULC change through spatial metrics
5.4.3. Patch: polygon-based descriptive statistics
5.5. Landscape transformation in Machadinho and Anari
5.5.1. Metrics and meanings
5.5.2. Unresolved problems in spatial data analysis
6. BEYOND THE METRICS: HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE
6.1. Understanding the human dimensions of landscape change
6.2. The structure of rules and incentives affecting land-use in Machadinho and Anari
6.2.1. Anari: a 'rapid settlement project'
6.2.2. Machadinho: a better design for settlement projects in the Amazon?
6.3. Actors and resources: the underlying processes of landscape change
6.3.1. Implementation phase
6.3.2. Consolidation phase
6.4. Toward better interactions among actors in the frontier
7. CONCLUDING REMARKS
7.1. This dissertation in the context of landscape ecology
7.2. Hypotheses revisited
7.3. Significance and implications of this study
7.4. Opportunities for further studies
REFERENCES
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2

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