Redução das Emissões provenientes do Desmatamento e da Degradação (REDD): Propostas atuais e a UNFCCCReducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD): Current Proposals and the UNFCCC

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture together with forestry (including land-use changes (LUC)) are responsible for nearly 30% of global anthropogenic emissions (IPCC, 2007), but the mitigation potential of these sectors is significant.

Fossil pollen assemblages are an important tool to reconstruct vegetation variability at centennial and millennial-scales. However, in the Cerrado biome of Brazil, the influence of the local vegetation, the heterogeneity of the landscape and the accuracy of pollen...