Temporal change of Distance to Nature index for anthropogenic influence monitoring in a protected area and its buffer zone

Almeida, Dayana; André, Marie; Scariot, Eliziane Carla; Fushita, Ângela Terumi; Santos, José Eduardo dos; Bogaert, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.055

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“…This trend is supported by the predominance of areas with medium/low and low naturalness, categorized by UI values between > 0.5 to 1.0 (Table 2). The predominance of agricultural anthropic areas reverting to landscapes with low naturalness is also reported in other studies[23] [45][46].…”

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Assessing Naturalness Changes Resulting from a Historical Land Use in Brazil South Region: An Analysis of the 1986-2016 Period

Rovani¹,

Santos²,

Decian³

et al. 2019

JEP

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The effects of land use and cover changes and the application of the Urbanity Index were analyzed to identify critical or non-critical naturalness scenery in the Northern Region of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), over a period of 30 years. Between 1986 and 2016, the main significant land use change was the reduction of the agricultural anthropic and the increase of the natural vegetation land use areas. About 90%-80% of the total study areas were characterized by anthropic pattern features, with a predominantly agricultural matrix. The conversion of agricultural anthropic into natural areas resulted in increased naturalness landscape and a gain in the stock of natural capital. The increase in the natural vegetation area, mainly to the north and east of the region, set in a steep relief, became remarkable after 1990. The Urbanity Index values evidenced a highest naturalness condition (natural vegetation areas) to the northern and eastern, while a smaller naturalness condition (agricultural and non-agricultural areas) to the southern and western and central of the Northern Region of Rio Grande do Sul. These changes are related to a non-impaired (northern and eastern) and a impaired scenery (southern, western and central portion) of the ecological sustainability of the Northern Region of Rio Grande do Sul, after a 30-year period (1986-2016). These results pointed out that land use transitions resulted in a consolidated farming scenario in which agricultural intensification coincided with the reduction of farming area and increased naturalness as a reverse trend to the agricultural frontier dynamics.

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Assessing Naturalness Changes Resulting from a Historical Land Use in Brazil South Region: An Analysis of the 1986-2016 Period

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Santos²,

Decian³

et al. 2019

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“…The effectiveness of BZs that are already established, as well as the concern for preserving their biodiversity, has been the object of study of several researchers. Authors, such as Moraes et al 2015, Nora et al (2009), Lima et al (2013), Moraes et al (2017), and Almeida et al (2018), verified the low effectiveness of BZs in some Brazilian CUs. Costa et al (2011) verified that most of Brazilian CUs face serious problems such as land issues, deforestation, and burnings, as well as a lack of personnel and infrastructure.…”

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Demographic pressure in Serra do Mar State Park and its buffer zone, southeastern Brazil

Starzynski

Simões

Soares

et al. 2018

Environ Monit Assess

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The Serra do Mar State Park forms a green corridor that connects significant remnants of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a region that presents great biodiversity. However, the mounting pressure exerted on it by disorderly urban expansion around conservation unit areas is a cause for concern. Thereby, this paper aims to analyze a geographical and demographic characterization of Serra do Mar State Park and its buffer zone in order to identify regions under the greatest pressure and provide subsidies for developing public policies. The study is based on a cartographic representation using a geographic information system associated with the 2010 Census demographic data, which has been conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE in Portuguese acronym). The study area covers the territory of 32 municipalities and it was found that almost 25,000 inhabitants live inside the park while approximately 712,000 residents live inside its buffer zone.

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“…However, setting a buffer radius in the preprocessing process has been blurred by a suite of previous studies and remains a point of contention, with some having acknowledged the selection standards (e.g., funding projects), whereas others just followed previous studies. For this reason, various radius have been adopted when it comes to assessing the effectiveness of protected areas i.e., 1 km, 5 km, 10 km, 25 km, 50 km, 100 km, and so on [83][84][85][86], which could undermine the comparability of the individual work and result in a bias in the effectiveness outcome if there remains a lack of consideration of the ratio between the LULC resolution and the buffer radius.…”

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Grassland Conservation Effectiveness of National Nature Reserves in Northern China

Zhao

et al. 2022

Remote Sensing

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Grasslands are crucial ecosystem biomes for breeding livestock and combatting climate change. By 2018, the national nature reserves (NNRs) in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) had constituted 8.55% of the land area. However, there is still a knowledge gap about their effectiveness in grasslands. Based on a multiyear time series of the growing season composite from 2000 to 2020, we proposed an effectiveness score to assess the effectiveness of the NNRs, using the 250 m MOD13Q1 NDVI data with Theil–Sen and Mann–Kendall trend analysis methods. We found the following: 22 of 30 NNRs were deemed effective in protecting the Inner Mongolian grasslands. The NNRs increased pixels with a sustainable trend 19.26% and 20.55% higher than the unprotected areas and the IMAR, respectively. The pixels with a CVNDVI < 0.1 (i.e., NDVI coefficient of variation) in the NNRs increased >35.22% more than those in the unprotected areas and the IMAR. The NDVI changes within the NNRs showed that 63.64% of NNRs had a more significant trend of greening than before the change point, which suggests a general greening in NNRs. We also found that the NNRs achieved heterogeneous effectiveness scores across protection types. Forest ecology protection and wildlife animal protection types are the most efficient, whereas wildlife vegetation protection is the least effective type. This study enriches the understanding of grassland conservation and sheds light on the future direction of the sustainable management of NNRs.

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Temporal change of Distance to Nature index for anthropogenic influence monitoring in a protected area and its buffer zone

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Assessing Naturalness Changes Resulting from a Historical Land Use in Brazil South Region: An Analysis of the 1986-2016 Period

Assessing Naturalness Changes Resulting from a Historical Land Use in Brazil South Region: An Analysis of the 1986-2016 Period

Demographic pressure in Serra do Mar State Park and its buffer zone, southeastern Brazil

Grassland Conservation Effectiveness of National Nature Reserves in Northern China

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