Temporal patterns of deforestation and fragmentation in lowland Bolivia: implications for climate change

Pinto‐Ledezma, Jesús N.; Mamani, Mary Laura Rivero

doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0817-1

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“…Hence, it is not surprising to find fewer patches of forests in inaccessible area. This result is in agreement with Pinto‐Ledezma and Rivero ().…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Anthropogenic habitat loss and fragmentation commonly influence ecosystem services provided by forests, shrubs, and grasslands across landscapes on spatial and temporal scales (Berhane, Totland, & Moe, ; Cuke & Srivastava, ; Fetene et al., ; Laurance, ; Midha & Mathur, ; Pinto‐Ledezma & Rivero, ; Wang & Yang, ; Zipperer, Foresman, Walker, & Daniel, ). Many studies conducted so far in different parts of the world on various ecosystem types revealed that habitat loss has a greater effect on ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation among other things than fragmentation (Debuse, King, & House, ; Fahrig, ; Hillers, Veith, & Rödel, ; Peh, Lin, Luke, Foster, & Turner, ; Yaacobi, Ziv, & Rosenzweig, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Landscape composition and configuration in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Tolessa

Senbeta

Kidane

2016

Ecology and Evolution

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Landscape dynamics are common phenomenon in the human‐dominated environments whereby it can be observed that the composition and configuration between landscape elements change over time. This dynamism brings about habitat loss and fragmentation that can greatly alter ecosystem services at patch, class, and landscape levels. We conducted a study to examine composition and configuration of forested landscape in the central highlands of Ethiopia using satellite images of over a period of four decades, and FRAGSTAT raster dataset was used to analyze fragmentation. Our result showed five land use/land cover (LULC) types in the study area. Cultivated land and settlement land increased at the expense of forestland, shrubland, and grassland. Fragmentation analysis showed the number of patches increased for all LULC types, indicating the level of fragmentation and interspersion. Juxtaposition increased for shrubland, grassland, and cultivated lands and decreased for settlement and forestland resulting in the fragmentation and isolation of patches. The study of LULC along with fragmentation at the landscape level can help improve our understanding of the pace at which conversion of landscape elements is happening and the impacts on ecosystem services as studies of LULC are courser in nature and would not show how each land use is reducing in size, proximity and shape among other things that determine ecosystem services. Such type of studies in rural landscapes are very vital to consider appropriate land management policies for the landscape level by taking into account the interaction between each element for sustainable development. We recommend land managers, conservationists, and land owners for observing the roles of each patch in the matrix to maximize the benefits than focusing on a single element.

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“…Hence, it is not surprising to find fewer patches of forests in inaccessible area. This result is in agreement with Pinto‐Ledezma and Rivero ().…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape composition and configuration in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Tolessa

Senbeta

Kidane

2016

Ecology and Evolution

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“…The mean patch size, the number of transformed patches, the density of patches and the total edge increased considerably as the total area transformed increased (Table 1). These results are consistent with other analyses of landscape changes of dry forest areas (Steininger et al, 2001;Gasparri and Grau, 2009;Pinto-Ledezma and Rivero Mamani, 2013). Mean shape index was higher for Paraguay than for Argentina and Bolivia, indicating more complexity (i.e.…”

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confidence: 91%

Transformation dynamics of the natural cover in the Dry Chaco ecoregion: A plot level geo-database from 1976 to 2012

Vallejos

Volante

Mosciaro

et al. 2015

Journal of Arid Environments

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a b s t r a c tThe aim of this work was to characterize the spatial and temporal dynamics of the transformation of the natural cover in the Dry Chaco ecoregion from 1976 to 2012. Dry forests in this region have one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. We analyzed 44 Landsat scenes, including part of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. The analysis was based on tracking individual transformed plots of the entire Dry Chaco region for over more than three decades using the same protocol. Until the end of 2012 15.8 million ha of the original habitats of the Chaco were transformed into croplands or pastures. Our study showed that the greater annual rates of transformation were observed in Paraguay, where deforestation increased dramatically in the last decade, reaching values higher than 4.0% in 2010, the highest historical value in the entire region. The size of the transformed plots increased significantly through the studied period both in Argentina and Paraguay, while in Bolivia decreased. At the landscape level, the use of several fragmentation indices showed the disruption of the continuity and connectivity of the original vegetation. The spatially explicit description of the dynamics of transformed areas is an indispensable tool for natural resources management, territorial planning and deforestation impacts assessment. The developed geo-database is available online at http://monitoreodesmonte.com.ar/ for further analyses and use.

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“…Da Cunha, 2012; Killeen et al, 2007;Miranda, Paranhos Filho, & Pott, 2018;Pinto-Ledezma & Mamani, 2014;Rossetto & Girardi, 2012;Tomas, Mourão, Campos, Salis, & Santos, 2009), raising the need for implementation of effective conservation measures and new restoration approaches in the region. Changes on land use are linked to Points 1, 2, and 3 of our proposed agenda for the Pantanal.…”

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Sustainability Agenda for the Pantanal Wetland: Perspectives on a Collaborative Interface for Science, Policy, and Decision-Making

Tomás

Roque

Morato

et al. 2019

Tropical Conservation Science

117

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Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands. Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services for humanity and can generate a considerable direct or indirect income to the local communities. To meet many of the sustainable development goals, we need to move our trajectory from the current environmental destructive development to a wiser wetland use. The current article contain a proposed agenda for the Pantanal aiming the improvement of public policy for conservation in the Pantanal, one of the largest, most diverse, and continuous inland wetland in the world. We suggest and discuss a list of 11 essential interfaces between science, policy, and development in region linked to the proposed agenda. We believe that a functional science network can booster the collaborative capability to generate creative ideas and solutions to address the big challenges faced by the Pantanal wetland.

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Temporal patterns of deforestation and fragmentation in lowland Bolivia: implications for climate change

Cited by 21 publications

References 40 publications

Landscape composition and configuration in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Landscape composition and configuration in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Transformation dynamics of the natural cover in the Dry Chaco ecoregion: A plot level geo-database from 1976 to 2012

Sustainability Agenda for the Pantanal Wetland: Perspectives on a Collaborative Interface for Science, Policy, and Decision-Making

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