Fragmentação florestal e ilhas de habitat urbanos: geossistemas em mosaicos e conectividades funcionais em Juiz de Fora (MG)

Juliana Costa Baptista Barreto; Roberto Marques Neto

doi:10.5016/geografia.v51i1.18399

Forest fragmentation and islands of urban habitat

geossystems in mosaics and functional connectivities in Juiz de Fora (MG)

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Juliana Costa Baptista Barreto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Campus Pampulha, Belo Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-8889
Roberto Marques Neto Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Campus São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, Minas Ferais, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6496-789X

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https://doi.org/10.5016/geografia.v51i1.18399

Abstract

The central issue of this research is defined by the theme of forest fragmentation and connectivity. Considering the assertion that mosaic clusters create landscapes, it is possible that facies groups and classes can be considered units adhering to mosaics, since their clustering defines macrogeochores, a geosystemic hierarchy closest to the spatial notion of landscape. Thus, this article aims to qualitatively and quantitatively interpret forest fragmentation in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, converging the geosystemic methodological approach with landscape ecology. The results indicate a spatiality with relative structural diversity, highly divided into mosaics of different sizes, shapes, and patterns of distance between them, generating connectivity provided by corridors predominantly in mosaics in more functional circuits

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Roberto Marques Neto, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Campus São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, Minas Ferais, Brasil.

É professor permanente do Departamento de Geociências e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, editor chefe da Revista de Geografia (PPGEO-UFJF), professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal de Alfenas, líder do Grupo TERRA-UFJF (Temáticas Especiais Relacionadas ao Relevo e à Água) e membro do grupo Análise Espacial e Dinâmica Ambiental-UNIFAL.

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2026-03-19

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BARRETO, Juliana Costa Baptista; MARQUES NETO, Roberto. Forest fragmentation and islands of urban habitat: geossystems in mosaics and functional connectivities in Juiz de Fora (MG). GEOGRAFIA, [S. l.], v. 51, n. 1, p. e-18399, 2026. DOI: 10.5016/geografia.v51i1.18399. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/ageteo/article/view/18399. Acesso em: 22 mar. 2026.

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