How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?

Ferraz, Silvio Frosini de Barros; Ferraz, Kátia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros; Cassiano, Carla Cristina; Brancalion, Pedro Henrique Santin; Luz, Daniela Tomasio Apolinario da; Azevedo, Thaís N.; Tambosi, Leandro Reverberi; Metzger, Jean Paul

doi:10.1007/s10980-014-9988-z

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“…This index of historical landscape change captures relative differences among landscapes as to the timing of deforestation. FCCP was initially devised to assess differences in past deforestation trajectories in fragmented landscapes (Ferraz et al 2014). Both FCCP and LUI were calculated using Land Use Change Analysis Tools (LUCAT), an open source ArcGIS extension (Ferraz et al 2011(Ferraz et al , 2012.…”

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Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

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Context Land use change and forest degradation have myriad effects on tropical ecosystems. Yet their consequences for low-order streams remain very poorly understood, including in the worlds largest freshwater basin, the Amazon. Objectives Determine the degree to which physical and chemical characteristics of the instream habitat of low-order Amazonian streams change in response to past local-and catchment-level anthropogenic disturbances.Methods To do so, we collected field instream habitat (i.e., physical habitat and water quality) and landscape data from 99 stream sites in two eastern Brazilian Amazon regions. We used random forest regression trees to assess the relative importance of different predictor variables in determining changes in instream habitat response variables. Results Multiple drivers, operating at multiple spatial scales, were important in determining changes in the physical habitat and water quality of the sites. Although we found few similarities in modelled relationships between the two regions, we observed non-linear responses of specific instream Ecol (2016) 31:1725-1745 DOI 10.1007 characteristics to landscape change; for example 20 % of catchment deforestation resulted in consistently warmer streams.Conclusions Our results highlight the importance of local riparian and catchment-scale forest cover in shaping instream physical environments, but also underscore the importance of other land use changes and activities, such as road crossings and upstream agriculture intensification. In contrast to the propertyscale focus of the Brazilian Forest code, which governs environmental regulations on private land, our results reinforce the importance of catchment-wide management strategies to protect stream ecosystem integrity.

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Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

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“…Although degraded and isolated, some forest remnants may still house a considerable share of local biodiversity (Chazdon et al, 2009), provide valuable ecosystem services (Ferraz et al, 2014), and represent the main sources of plant propagules and fauna to young secondgrowth and restored forests in fragmented landscapes (Brancalion et al, 2013). Nevertheless, restoration projects usually focus on planting trees in completely deforested areas, despite the fact that active restoration is expensive and rarely reaches biodiversity levels of reference sites (Suganuma and Durigan, 2015;Shoo et al, 2016).…”

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Evaluating climber cutting as a strategy to restore degraded tropical forests

César

Holl

Girão

et al. 2016

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A substantial share of the remaining tropical forest cover is represented by historically degraded fragments exposed to severe edge effects, where ruderal plants proliferate vigorously and may arrest succession. We tested climber plant cutting as strategy to restore a semideciduous tropical forest remnant that is dominated by ruderal climbers. We compared control (unmanaged) plots with plots subjected to climber cutting at 1-m height with recutting one (after 8 months) or three times (8, 24 and 36 months). We monitored: 1) tree and shrub biomass gain and canopy openness for three years; 2) tree and shrub growth and recruitment of regenerating seedlings for one year; and 3) planted seedling survival for two years. Climber cutting increased biomass gain by~51% for smaller trees and shrubs (1.58 ≤ dbh b 5 cm) only, regardless of the number of re-cuts. Canopy openness increased following climber cutting, but recovered after ten months due to rapid growth of the tree canopies. Growth of regenerating seedlings, but not abundance, was favored by climber cutting. Initial cutting of climbers enhanced survival of enrichment plantings, but this benefit declined with canopy re-occupation by tree foliage. Although longer-term research is needed, cutting ruderal climbers in degraded forest remnants was shown to be a promising approach to enhance forest regeneration and carbon sequestration, justifying its consideration in the restoration agenda as a complementary activity to increasing forest cover in former agricultural lands.

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“…The soil type and rainfall supports the enrichment planting, which is also supported by the existing social typology. Over four decades, most of the company's activities were assessed from the southern part (Ferraz et al, 2014). Consequently, demographic and social conditions were developed faster in the southern part then in the northern part.…”

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Implementation of Multi-System Silviculture (Mss) to Improve Performance of Production Forest Management: A Case Study of Pt. Sarpatim, Central Kalimantan

Suryanto¹,

Susilo

Onrizal

et al. 2018

Ina.J.For.Res

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. SARPATIM, CENTRAL KALIMANTAN. To date, performance of the management of Indonesian production forests are discouraging. The concession areas, timber production and employment have been decreasing over time. To concern on these matter and to improve management, a research was conducted for six years (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) and resulted in recommendations to implement the Multi-System of Silviculture (MSS) systems. Two products were generated in MSS; criteria and indicator to guide the selection of appropriate silvicultural system and supersilvik, a model to develop the best business plans. This paper evaluates and strengthens the recommendations through the simulation of MSS products in PT. Sarmiento Parakantja Timber (Sarpatim), Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Various data variables were used, such as thematic maps of forest areas, data of stand, materials, equipments, labors, finances and incomes. Data were processed in a variety of formulations which were connected to each other in model systems to produce a variety of outcomes, such as production, finance, employment and tax contributions. Results offer four options to improve PT. Sarpatim performance, one of which is the best choice. Compared to the former business model under limited silvicultural systems, MSS projected an increase in the use of land, timber production and employment by 151-753%. Implementing MSS will provide a better and healthier finance for company with an increase of NPV up to 193%; as well as for government tax revenues with an increase up to 308%. This MSS case study strongly suggests using the new theory that the management of production forests is a land and plant-based enterprises, which should put the land as the major capital and silvicultural aspects as the driving engine for production. The policy makers should be able to use these results as a reference in implementing MSS widely as part of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices.

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How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?

Cited by 153 publications

References 76 publications

Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

Evaluating climber cutting as a strategy to restore degraded tropical forests

Implementation of Multi-System Silviculture (Mss) to Improve Performance of Production Forest Management: A Case Study of Pt. Sarpatim, Central Kalimantan

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