expanding land use. Thus, agricultural production has a dialectical relationship with natural
resource conservation. South America has been the recent site of both intensification and
areal expansion of crop production. The presented study investigates the dynamics of land
use and land cover (LULC) in Mato Grosso state at two-year intervals for an 18-year period
consisting of the 2000/01 and 2017/18 crop years. We used a stratified sampling approach …