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Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon.

ABSTRACT: Human activities pose a major threat to tropical forest biodiversity and ecosystem services. Although the impacts of deforestation are well studied, multiple land-use and land-cover transitions (LULCTs) occur in tropical landscapes, and we do not know how LULCTs differ in their rates or impacts on key ecosystem components. Here, we quantified the impacts of 18 LULCTs on three ecosystem components (biodiversity, carbon, and soil), based on 18 variables collected from 310 sites in the Brazilian Amazon. Across all LULCTs, biodiversity was the most affected ecosystem component, followed by carbon stocks, but the magnitude of change differed widely among LULCTs and individual variables. Forest clearance for pasture was the most prevalent and high-impact transition, but we also identified other LULCTs with high impact but lower prevalence (e.g., forest to agriculture). Our study demonstrates the importance of considering multiple ecosystem components and LULCTs to understand the consequences of human activities in tropical landscapes.

SUBMITTER: Nunes CA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271202 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon.

Nunes Cássio Alencar CA Berenguer Erika E França Filipe F Ferreira Joice J Lees Alexander C AC Louzada Julio J Sayer Emma J EJ Solar Ricardo R Smith Charlotte C CC Aragão Luiz E O C LEOC Braga Danielle de Lima DL de Camargo Plinio Barbosa PB Cerri Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino CEP de Oliveira Raimundo Cosme RC Durigan Mariana M Moura Nárgila N Oliveira Victor Hugo Fonseca VHF Ribas Carla C Vaz-de-Mello Fernando F Vieira Ima I Zanetti Ronald R Barlow Jos J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220627 27

Human activities pose a major threat to tropical forest biodiversity and ecosystem services. Although the impacts of deforestation are well studied, multiple land-use and land-cover transitions (LULCTs) occur in tropical landscapes, and we do not know how LULCTs differ in their rates or impacts on key ecosystem components. Here, we quantified the impacts of 18 LULCTs on three ecosystem components (biodiversity, carbon, and soil), based on 18 variables collected from 310 sites in the Brazilian Am ...[more]

PMID: 35759674

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Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon.

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