This dataset contains native forest cover and planted forests data for 3014 municipalities in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Brazil, used in the paper: “Piffer, P.R., Calaboni, A., Rosa, M.R., Schwartz, N.B., Tambosi, L.R., & Uriarte, M. (2021) Ephemeral forest regeneration limits carbon sequestration potential in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Global Change Biology”. The land cover data was obtained from the Mapbiomas Collection 5 products and is publicly available at https://mapbiomas.org/ for download. Socioeconomic data was obtained from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, available at https://sidra.ibge.gov.br. More information on the dataset, analysis and results can be found in the associated manuscript referenced above.

The readme file contains an explanation of each of the variables in the dataset and its measurement units. More information can be found in the associated manuscript referenced above.