The role of private rural properties for conserving native vegetation in Brazilian Southern Amazonia
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The State of Mato Grosso in Brazil has undergone intensive land use changes over the past decades. Native ecosystems have been converted into agrosystems for the production of cash crops and cattle. The Brazilian Forest Code advocates full protection of specifically sensitive habitats, and it also safeguards a fixed percentage of native vegetation known as “Legal Reserves” (LRs) inside private rural properties. As part of Brazilian Legal Amazonia region, in Mato Grosso, these percentages account for 35 % of savannas and 80 % of forests found inside each rural property. Here we analyze at the scale of the three biomes: Cerrado, Amazonia and Pantanal, the changes in native vegetation cover (NVC) from 1992 to 2007 and the representativeness of NVC types within the LRs, as well as the role of LRs for general landscape configuration and conservation. In Mato Grosso, 90 % of all studied NVC types are represented inside LR patches. Legal Reserves also accounted for 37 % of the total protected areas and for 37.8 % of all remnant NVCs found in Mato Grosso in 2007. The importance of LRs for landscape structure varied greatly according to biome, but it is noteworthy that LRs were generally missing in highly deforested zones. The relative small size of LRs in all biomes (55 to 64 % of them are ≤12 ha) makes them specifically vulnerable to further changes in land use. Considering the current tendency of ongoing fragmentation, the importance of LRs for landscape connectivity should be increased, specifically by improving the network of corridors between these remnant native vegetation areas.
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Deforestation has been very intensive in Southern Amazonia, followed by an increase of agro-combustive plantations and big and small hydropower dam projects, resulting in greater erosion and pollution, and fewer free-flowing river reaches with the capacity to absorb pollution.
“Deforestation has been very intensive in Southern Amazonia [54], followed by an increase of agro-combustive plantations and big and small hydropower dam projects, resulting in both greater erosion and pollution, and fewer free-flowing river reaches with the capacity to absorb the pollution [66].”
From Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis (2019) · cites this paper as [54]
Enforcement of existing laws, protection of riparian forests and headwater swamps, maintenance of environmental flows, public decision to keep parts of the river continuum entirely free of dams, and the principle of espace de liberté can solve large parts of the rural problem.
“Very often, enforcement of existing laws (e.g., the Brazilian Forest Code, [54]), protection of riparian forests and headwater swamps [177], maintenance of environmental flows [87], and the public decision to keep parts of the river continuum entirely free of dams (e.g., [10]), and the principle of “espace de liberté” (space for river dynamics), can solve a large parts of the rural problem.”
From Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis (2019) · cites this paper as [54]
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“, the Brazilian Forest Code, [54]), protection of riparian forests and headwater swamps [177], maintenance of environmental flows [87], and the public decision to keep parts of the river continuum entirely free of dams (e.”
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- Authors
- Siqueira, A., Ricaurte, L. F., Borges, G. A., Nunes, G. M., & Wantzen, K. M.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (BR)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (BR)
- Université de Tours (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Siqueira, Auberto
- ORCID
- Venue
- Regional Environmental Change
- Published
- 2015-08-06
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21-32
- ISSN
- 1436-378X (ISSN-L)
- 1436-3798
- OpenAlex
- W1047749695
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- 17
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- 28
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- 0.82
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- Regional Environmental Change (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Áreas Umidas
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Geography and Environmental Studies
- Keywords
- legal reserve, native vegetation conservation, land use change, Brazilian Forest Code, Mato Grosso, Cerrado, Amazon basin, Pantanal, landscape fragmentation, landscape connectivity, ecological corridors, deforestation, protected areas, remnant vegetation
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