Regional wetland response typology: Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

PAGES news • Vol 19 • No 2 • July 2011 Sc ie nc e H ig hl ig ht s: In te gr at iv e Pa le os ci en ce of the Atlantic Rainforest in recent decades, which is crucial to understanding the recent trends in environmental degradation in Sao Paulo state. An attempt to reconstruct the forest cover of the state was done by Victor (1975) and Victor et al. (2005) based on reports of pioneers and naturalists, the rise and mobility of population, agriculture expansion and more recently on aerial photo interpretation. It shows that the forest cover of the state was drastically reduced (Fig. 2) by the spread of agriculture and industrialization. The amount of forest cover remaining today corresponds to 2, 8 and 55% of the original area in Campinas, Bauru and Cubatao, respectively.