Geoecology of Landscapes: A related science and its methodological pathway to integrated analysis
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https://doi.org/10.21814/physisterrae.5919Keywords:
Landscape unit, Carajás, GeoecologyAbstract
Landscape Geoecology is a multidisciplinary environmental science with a systemic approach, interested in environmental patterns and functions, correlating geographical, ecological as well as socio-productive systems, which conveys a certain complexity, often leading to theoretical and methodological inconsistency. Given it is a relatively recent study field in Brazil, there is still much work to be done until Geoecology is able to curb the existing contradictions in its application. The objective of the present study is to provide a methodological approach to Geoecology, focusing on its analytical and synthetic attributes for the cartographic identification of geoecological units at topological level. The methodological procedures for geoecological studies comprise two steps: analysis and diagnosis. The subsequent findings herein describe the delimitation of five geoecological units along with their differentiation at topological level.
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