A network of monitoring networks for evaluating biodiversity conservation effectiveness in Brazilian protected areas

Roque, Fábio de Oliveira; Uehara‐Prado, Márcio; Valente‐Neto, Francisco; Quintero, José Manuel Ochoa; Ribeiro, Kátia Torres; Martins, Marlúcia Bonifácio; Lima, Marcelo Gonçalves de; Souza, Franco L.; Fischer, Erich Arnold; Silva, Urbano Lopes da; Ishida, Françoise Yoko; Gray‐Spence, Andrew; Pinto, J.O.P.; Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini; Martins, Clarissa de Araújo; Renaud, Pierre‐Cyril; Pays, Olivier; Magnusson, William E.

doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2018.10.003

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“…Finally, our results highlight that that simple metrics of overall PA coverage are unlikely to ensure that conservation end-goals will be achieved (Barnes, 2015) and that a better integration of biodiversity and deforestation monitoring initiatives (Roque et al, 2018) within a counterfactual framework (Mascia et al, 2017) is needed to provide reliable indicators of PA performance in Brazil. Only by adopting metrics that reflect conservation end-goals will it be possible to know whether PAs are reaching their objectives and to direct the actions necessary to improve effectiveness of the national PA system.…”

Section: Conservation and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado

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Biological Conservation

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Assessing protected area (PA) effectiveness is key to ensure the objectives of habitat protection are being achieved. There is strong evidence that legal protection reduces loss of natural vegetation, but biodiversity loss can still happen without significant changes in vegetation cover. Here we use data from a specifically designed camera trap survey to conduct a counterfactual assessment of PA effectiveness at safeguarding local biodiversity in the Brazilian Cerrado. We surveyed the mammal community in 517 locations at the Sertão Veredas-Peruaçu mosaic, distributed across five strict PAs (264 survey sites in five arrays) and two multiple-use PAs with low management levels (253 survey sites in four arrays). We adopted a multi-species occupancy framework to analyse our dataset while also controlling for confounding factors not directly related to protection. Of the 21 species assessed, nine had higher occupancy in strict PAs, one had higher occupancy in multiple-use PAs, and ten did not respond to protection level. Site species richness was nearly twice as large in areas under stricter protection, with even greater differences for species richness of globally threatened and larger mammals (>15 kg). Overall we demonstrated that the strict PAs surveyed support higher mammal diversity than similar areas under less restrictive management, with a particular strong effect on larger and threatened species. Given that strict PAs cover only 3% of the Cerrado, our results suggest that expanding the area under strict protection is likely to benefit iconic species of the Brazilian savanna, such as the maned wolf and giant anteater.

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Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado

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“…Embracing this diversity by participating different indigenous and traditional cultures, and their perspectives in biodiversity conservation is essential (Frainer et al 2020). For example, having lived in the Amazon rainforest for millennia, indigenous peoples (Barlow, et al 2012) monitor key food resources, including turtles and fish, using self-developed systems that are formally incorporated into national biodiversity monitoring in Brazil (Roque, et al, 2018). In the department of Amazonas in Colombia, indigenous communities have an impact on decision-making of territorial planning schemes and regulations of the Ministry of the Environment through their involvement in monitoring schemes of fishery resources, riparian vegetation and river dolphins (Trujillo & Duque, 2014).…”

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Conservation of Latin America freshwater biodiversity: beyond political borders

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Latin America’s tremendous socio-cultural and biological diversity has evolved along tightly intertwined, far-reaching river networks. Decisions taken by any one country, may have strong impacts on the regional and even global biodiversity conservation agenda, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity. Here we propose and illustrate four perspectives that complement the actions suggested by Azevedo-Santos et al. (2021) to contribute to the effective conservation of freshwater biodiversity in Latin America, particularly in the context of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, currently under negotiation among the parties. Our suggestions put forward cross-border perspectives, urging governments to engage in actions, objectives, monitoring elements and post-2020 indicators that consider the reality of and threats to transnational ecosystems such as many river basins of Latin America.

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“…Alert systems such as the one proposed by the MapBiomas initiative could include analyses at the CUs level and BZs to offer an operational tool to alert the official managing agencies of these PAs. Moreover, the proposed methodology may represent a significant contribution to current information systems both in the interface areas in Brazil (where it could be implemented in monitoring systems of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation to complement in situ monitoring [112]), as well as in other world regions, since existing systems are still mostly focused on monitoring habitat loss in forest areas [13].…”

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Integrated Landscape Change Analysis of Protected Areas and their Surrounding Landscapes: Application in the Brazilian Cerrado

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Remote sensing tools have been long used to monitor landscape dynamics inside and around protected areas. Hereto, scientists have largely relied on land use and land cover (LULC) data to derive indicators for monitoring these dynamics, but these metrics do not capture changes in the state of vegetation surfaces that may compromise the ecological integrity of conservation areas’ landscapes. Here, we introduce a methodology that combines LULC change estimates with three Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-based proxy indicators of vegetation productivity, phenology, and structural change. We illustrate the utility of this methodology through a regional and local analysis of the landscape dynamics in the Cerrado Biome in Brazil in 2001 and 2016. Despite relatively little natural vegetation loss inside core protected areas and their legal buffer zones, the different indicators revealed significant LULC conversions from natural vegetation to farming land, general productivity loss, homogenization of natural forests, significant agricultural expansion, and a general increase in productivity. These results suggest an overall degradation of habitats and intensification of land use in the studied conservation area network, highlighting serious conservation inefficiencies in this region and stressing the importance of integrated landscape change analyses to provide complementary indicators of ecologically-relevant dynamics in these key conservation areas.

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A network of monitoring networks for evaluating biodiversity conservation effectiveness in Brazilian protected areas

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado

Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado

Conservation of Latin America freshwater biodiversity: beyond political borders

Integrated Landscape Change Analysis of Protected Areas and their Surrounding Landscapes: Application in the Brazilian Cerrado

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