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The Vão do Paranã Microregion is located in the Goiás States in an area of high environmental endemism, partially protected in several categories of conservation units. The region, however, was inserted in the agricultural productive matrix of the Cerrado biome with promotion and public policies directed towards its occupation, which, as demonstrated in other regions of the biome, are aggressive and compromising the maintenance of deity. Therefore, the objective of the article was to analyze the dynamics of occupation of the Vão do Paranã micro-region between 1985 and 2019 in order to understand how the spatio-temporal patterns of anthropogenic landscapes influenced the socioeconomic development of the micro-region. In this sense, mappings of land use and land cover were elaborated and were continuously interpreted with official demographic and agricultural data and landscape descriptors. The results indicate that a microregion within the evaluated time frame showed intense dynamics with promotion and encouragement of activities in the field of pastures and that the occupation process between the municipalities, even having a pasture with stimulus resulted in different economic and demographic responses. Although the natural areas are concentrated on the fronts of the Serra Geral border, in areas with a steep slope, with fragile soils and within the limits of the conservation units, the landscape descriptive indexes indicate a high state of anthropization and degradation of vegetation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the relationship between fire and the dynamics of Brazilian landscapes is a major issue for a better understanding of ecological processes and the human impacts on landscape dynamics. We explore the dynamics of spatial-temporal variation in fire occurrence in Brazilian biomes during the last 18 years (2001-2018), based on the burned area product MCD64A1 v006 and the database of land use and land cover of Mapbiomas project. The Cerrado recorded 62.2% of the total burned in the analyzed period, followed by the Amazon biome, with 23.5%. Pampa, Mata Atlântica and Amazônia had a fire occurrence above -50% in areas with agropastoral land uses, while in the Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal biomes the fires occurred mainly on areas of natural vegetation. We confirmed the potential for combining the use of products derived from remote sensing for the analysis of the patterns of burned areas, generating relevant information regarding the anthropic influences in the alteration of fire regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]