“…To generate LULC conversion rates, we used the modeling platform Dinamica Environment for Geoprocessing Objects-Dinamica EGO v4.0.9.0 (Soares- Filho, Cerqueira, & Pennachin, 2002). This platform has been successfully applied in several studies (de Rezende, Carriello, Rodriguez, & dos Santos Neves, 2018;Elz, Tansey, Page, & Trivedi, 2015;Kolb & Galicia, 2016;Mendoza-Ponce, Corona-Núñez, Kraxner, Leduc, & Patrizio, 2018;Pavani, Júnior, Inouye, Vieira, & Mello, 2018;Thompson, Plisinski, Olofsson, Holden, & Duveneck, 2017) for a large variety of land uses and environments.…”