Prioritising areas for wildfire prevention and post-fire restoration in the Brazilian Pantanal

Martins, Paula Isla; Belém, Liz Barreto Coelho; Szabo, Judit K.; Libonati, Renata; Garcia, L. C.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106517

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“…In the Pantanal, as in other Brazilian biomes (Ribeiro et al 2016), seed dispersal was the most studied topic, which finds immediate use in the restoration practices given that effective seed dispersal is a major underpinning of ecosystem multifunctionality recovery (Carlucci et al 2020; Garcia et al 2021 a ). The knowledge on dispersal season and fruiting phenology is particularly relevant in the Pantanal, given that landscape is structured in a spatiotemporal mosaic, with unpredictable shifts in the distribution of flooded and burned areas among years (Junk et al 2006; Martins et al 2022). Thus, dispersal among flooded and burned areas can potentially accelerate recovery after disturbances, as well as promoting gene flow among forest fragments.…”

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Seeding the Pantanal: orchestrating research to overcome restoration barriers in the world's largest tropical wetland

Gonçalves,

Oliveira,

Gonçalves

et al. 2024

Restoration Ecology

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Knowledge on seed ecology is foundational for effective seed‐based restoration including seedling production, direct seed sowing, topsoil transplant, and natural regeneration. Consequently, quantifying available knowledge and biases in seed‐based research allows practitioners to better plan and implement seed‐based restoration programs and identify research priorities. Using a systematic review comprising 45 papers, 401 species, and 2,415 case studies, we provide an overview of seed ecology research in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland. We identified geographic, taxonomic, and ecological biases, as well as knowledge gaps in seed functions including production, dispersal, dormancy, germination, predation, and stress tolerance. Studies concentrated near large cities resulting in extensive unexplored sites in central Pantanal, in Paraguay, and in Bolivia. Unexpectedly, the most studied species were conducted with dry‐fruited, terrestrial forbs, or shrubs with autochoric or zoochoric dispersal syndromes. Seed banks, stress tolerance, and dispersal were the most studied topics, whereas studies on dormancy and seedling establishment remain rare. We also found disproportionate research interest across the angiosperm tree of life with many examples of underrepresented and overrepresented families. Altogether, persistent knowledge gaps in seed‐based research in the Pantanal hinder upscaling restoration programs and consequently the likelihood of achieving the targets of UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. We propose an integrated agenda consisting of a series of orchestrated actions to overcome such barriers, close biodiversity knowledge shortfalls, and promote successful large‐scale restoration programs in the Pantanal.

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Seeding the Pantanal: orchestrating research to overcome restoration barriers in the world's largest tropical wetland

Gonçalves,

Oliveira,

Gonçalves

et al. 2024

Restoration Ecology

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“…A range of emerging actions and strategies will be needed to manage fire for mammalian conservation in Australia and globally. These include habitat restoration, Indigenous fire stewardship, planned burning, rapid recovery teams that assist wildlife after fire, reintroductions, and targeted fire suppression (Bird et al., 2018; Geary et al., 2021; Martins et al., 2022; Roberts et al., 2022). Models that simulate management alternatives and different fire regimes offer opportunities to explore the effectiveness of potential strategies (Nitschke et al., 2020).…”

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Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia

Santos

Hradsky

Keith

et al. 2022

Conservation Letters.

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Fire can promote biodiversity, but changing patterns of fire threaten species worldwide. While scientific literature often describes ‘‘inappropriate fire regimes’’ as a significant threat to biodiversity, less attention has been paid to the characteristics that make a fire regime inappropriate. We go beyond this generic description and synthesize how inappropriate fire regimes contribute to declines of animal populations using threatened mammals as a case study. We developed a demographic framework for classifying mechanisms by which fire regimes cause population decline and applied the framework in a systematic review to identify fire characteristics and interacting threats associated with population declines in Australian threatened land mammals (n = 99). Inappropriate fire regimes threaten 88% of Australian threatened land mammals. Our review indicates that intense, large, and frequent fires are the primary cause of fire‐related population declines, particularly through their influence on survival rates. However, several species are threatened by a lack of fire, and there is considerable uncertainty in the evidence base for fire‐related declines. Climate change and predation are documented or predicted to interact with fire to exacerbate mammalian declines. This demographic framework will help target conservation actions globally and will be enhanced by empirical studies of animal survival, movement, and reproduction.

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“…A range of emerging actions and strategies will be needed to manage fire for mammal conservation in Australia and globally. These include habitat restoration, Indigenous fire stewardship, planned burning, rapid recovery teams that assist wildlife after fire, reintroductions and targeted fire suppression (Bird et al, 2018; Geary et al, 2021; Martins et al, 2022; Roberts et al, 2022). Models that simulate management alternatives and different fire regimes offer opportunities to explore the effectiveness of potential strategies (Nitschke et al, 2020).…”

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Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: a synthesis of fire-driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia

Santos

Hradsky

Keith

et al. 2022

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Fire can promote biodiversity but changing patterns of fire threaten species worldwide. While scientific literature often describes inappropriate fire regimes as a significant threat to biodiversity, less attention has been paid to the characteristics that make a fire regime inappropriate. We go beyond this generic description and synthesize how inappropriate fire regimes contribute to declines of animal populations, using threatened mammals as a case study. We developed a demographic framework for classifying mechanisms by which fire regimes cause population decline, and applied the framework in a systematic review to identify fire characteristics and interacting threats associated with population declines in Australian threatened land mammals (n=99). Inappropriate fire regimes threaten 88% of Australian threatened land mammals. Our review indicates that intense, large, and frequent fires are the primary cause of fire-related population declines, particularly through their influence on survival rates. However, several species are threatened by a lack of fire and there is considerable uncertainty in the evidence base for fire-related declines. Climate change and predation are documented or predicted to interact with fire to exacerbate mammalian declines. This demographic framework will help target conservation actions globally and would be enhanced by empirical studies of animal survival, dispersal, and reproduction.

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Prioritising areas for wildfire prevention and post-fire restoration in the Brazilian Pantanal

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Seeding the Pantanal: orchestrating research to overcome restoration barriers in the world's largest tropical wetland

Seeding the Pantanal: orchestrating research to overcome restoration barriers in the world's largest tropical wetland

Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia

Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: a synthesis of fire-driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia

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