Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically

Sze, Jocelyne S.; Carrasco, L. Román; Childs, Dylan Z.; Edwards, David P.

doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00815-2

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“…Here, combining low-meat diets with agroecological intensification (Billen et al, 2021 ; Morais et al, 2021 ; Theurl et al, 2020 ), including the integration of trees in agricultural systems (Ramachandran Nair et al, 2009 ), appear as promising options. In addition, support for context-specific sustainable land-use practices that preserve forest ecosystems or increase forest cover while meeting local needs has been demonstrated to be not only more just, but also more effective, if collaboration with local communities (Min-Venditti et al, 2017 ) and specifically with Indigenous Peoples (Sze et al, 2021 ) is realized.…”

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Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers

Gingrich

Magerl

Matej

et al. 2022

Journal of Land Use Science

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Understanding the drivers of forest transitions is relevant to inform effective forest conservation. We investigate pathways of forest transitions in the United States (1920–2010), France (1850–2010), and Austria (1830–2010). By combining evidence from forest inventories with the forest model CRAFT, we first quantify how change in forest area ( ΔA ), maximum biomass density ( ΔBd max ), and actual biomass as fraction of maximum biomass ( ΔF max ) shaped forest dynamics. Second, to investigate the connections between forest change and societal resource use, or social metabolism, we quantify the importance of selected proximate and underlying socio-metabolic drivers. We find that agricultural intensification and reduced forest grazing correlated most with positive ΔA and ΔBd max . By contrast, change in biomass imports or harvest did not explain forest change. Our findings highlight the importance of forest growth conditions in explaining long-term forest dynamics, and demonstrate the distinct ways in which resource use drove forest change.

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Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers

Gingrich

Magerl

Matej

et al. 2022

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…First, ~93% of forests in Nagaland are owned and managed by village councils (Bhupathy et al, 2013) and vary in their protection status. Incorporating mature secondary or old‐growth forest areas in protected area networks co‐managed with local communities can be effective in conserving forest cover (Oldekop et al, 2016; Sze et al, 2022) at minimal cost given that shifting cultivation is subsistence‐based farming mainly practised in remote regions with low crop yields (Borrego & Skutsch, 2014; Morton et al, 2020). However, the opportunity costs of PES implementation to local communities could be high due to limited market access and structural barriers to adopting alternative livelihoods (e.g., Poudyal et al, 2016).…”

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The value of shifting cultivation for biodiversity in Northeast India

Borah

Gilroy

Evans

et al. 2022

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Aim: Shifting cultivation is a widespread land-use in many tropical countries that also harbours significant levels of biodiversity. Increasing frequency of cultivation cycles and expansion into old-growth forests have intensified the impacts of shifting cultivation on biodiversity and carbon sequestration. We assessed how bird diversity responds to shifting cultivation and the potential for co-benefits for both biodiversity and carbon in such landscapes to inform carbon-based payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes.Location: Nagaland, Northeast India. Methods:We surveyed above-ground carbon stocks and bird communities across various stages of a shifting cultivation system and old-growth forest using composite carbon sampling plots and repeated point counts directly overlaying the carbon plots in both summer and winter. We assessed species diversity using species accumulation and rarefaction curves based on Hill numbers. We fitted a linear mixed-effect model to assess the relationship between species richness and fallow age. We also examined possible co-benefits between carbon and biodiversity from fallow regeneration in terms of relative community similarity to old-growth forest across carbons stocks.Results: Farmland and secondary forests regenerating on fallowed land had similar bird species richness to old-growth forests in summer and relatively higher species richness in winter. Within regenerating fallows, we did not find any strong evidence that fallow age influenced bird species richness. Bird community resemblance to oldgrowth forest increased with secondary forest maturity, correlating also with carbon stocks in summer. However, bird community assemblage did not show a strong association with habitat types and carbon stocks during winter. Main conclusions:This study underscores the important role of traditional nonintensive shifting cultivation in providing refuges for biodiversity within heterogeneous habitat mosaics. Effectively managing these landscapes is crucial for both biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in the subtropics.

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“…Hanson et al, 2020). Furthermore, it has been used to help understand how protected area management by Indigenous Peoples can reduce deforestation (Sze et al, 2022).…”

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wdpar: Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas

Hanson¹

2022

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The wdpar R package provides an interface to data available on Protected Planet (https://www.protectedplanet.net). It can be used to access the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (WDOECM). Additionally, it provides data cleaning procedures to prepare these databases for analysis. These data cleaning procedures are essential for ensuring correct results when using the databases. As a software package for the R statistical computing environment, it can easily be integrated into workflows and spatial analyses. The package has applications for conservation research. It has been used to assess performance of existing protected areas and account for such areas when identifying priority areas for conservation efforts.

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Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically

Cited by 98 publications

References 57 publications

Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers

Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers

The value of shifting cultivation for biodiversity in Northeast India

wdpar: Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas

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