Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems

In the past decades, Brazil made important progress in the conservation of forest ecosystems. Non‐forest ecosystems (NFE), in contrast, have been neglected, even though they cover large parts of the country and have biodiversity levels comparable to forests. To avoid losing much of its biodiversity...

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Published inDiversity & distributions Vol. 21; no. 12; pp. 1455 - 1460
Main Authors Overbeck, Gerhard E, Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo, Scarano, Fabio R, Lewinsohn, Thomas M, Fonseca, Carlos R, Meyer, Sebastian T, Müller, Sandra C, Ceotto, Paula, Dadalt, Letícia, Durigan, Giselda, Ganade, Gislene, Gossner, Martin M, Guadagnin, Demetrio L, Lorenzen, Katrin, Jacobi, Claudia M, Weisser, Wolfgang W, Pillar, Valério D, Loyola, Rafael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Science 01.12.2015
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Biodiversity
BIODIVERSITY LETTER
Brazil
Conservation
conservation areas
Ecosystem conservation
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Forest conservation
Forest ecosystems
forests
governance
grassland
issues and policy
Land use
land use change
megadiverse country
monitoring
Protected areas
savanna
Sustainable use
Brazil
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Summary:In the past decades, Brazil made important progress in the conservation of forest ecosystems. Non‐forest ecosystems (NFE), in contrast, have been neglected, even though they cover large parts of the country and have biodiversity levels comparable to forests. To avoid losing much of its biodiversity and ecosystem services, conservation and sustainable land use policies in Brazil need to be extended to NFE. A strategy for conservation of Brazil's NFE should encompass the following elements: (1) creation of new large protected areas in NFE; (2) enforcement of legal restrictions of land use; (3) extension of subsidy programs and governance commitments to NFE; (4) improvement of ecosystem management and sustainable use in NFE; and (5) improvement of monitoring of land use change in NFE. If Brazil managed to extend its conservation successes to NFE, it not only would contribute significantly to conservation of its biodiversity, but also could take the lead in conservation of NFE world‐wide.
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Appendix S1 Non-forest ecosystems (NFE) and the Brazilian legislation for protection of native vegetation. Appendix S2 How much of non-forest ecosystems (NFE) can be potentially protected by the different legal mechanisms? Appendix S3 Data basis and methods for Table . Appendix S4 Data bases and methods for Fig. . Appendix S5 References in the Supplementary Material. Table S1 Total estimated area of non-forest (NFE) and forest ecosystems that may be potentially protected by the different mechanisms defined by the provisions of the Brazilian Native Vegetation Law.
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ISSN:1366-9516
1472-4642
DOI:10.1111/ddi.12380