Managing degraded forests, a new priority in the Brazilian Amazon
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disturbed forests, forests, damage, deforestation, forest management, regional policies, forestry policies, planning, forest protection, climate change, sustainable development, remote sensing, spatial information, landscape, interdisciplinarity, non-timber forest productsCouverture
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In the Brazilian Amazon, degraded forests dominate the landscapes on the agricultural frontiers. This region is now facing a major challenge: halting degradation and sustainably managing these forests. Today, degraded forests represent a class of forest in their own right. They can nevertheless play a key role in combating climate change, and can also help to improve the ecological functioning of the different territories. Implementing public policies with the twin objectives of reducing degradation and promoting these forests implies strong support from research. In this Perspective, we focus on four research priorities: developing methods to characterise and monitor degraded forests; drafting specific forest management plans; understanding the role played by all social actors; and supporting policies at the territorial level.
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Berenguer E., Ferreira J., Gardner T.A., Aragão L. E.O.C., De Carmargo, P.B., Cerri C.E., Durigan M., Oliveira R.C.D., Vieira I. C.G., Barlow J.A., 2014. A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests. Global Change Biology 20 (12): 3713–3726. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12627
Bourgoin C., Baghdadi N., Blanc L., Ferreira J., Gond V., Mazzei L., Oswald J., 2015. Identifying classes of degraded forests in an Amazonian Landscape from remote-sensing. Communication at 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Society for Conservation Biology, 2-6 August 2015, Montpellier, France. http://agritrop.cirad.fr/581815/
Ferreira J., Blanc L., Kanashiro M., Lees A.C., Bourgoin C., Veloso de Freitas J., Bentes Gama M., Laurent F., Martins M.B., Moura N., d´Oliveira M.V., Doff Sotta E., de Souza C.R., Ruschel A.R., Schwartz G., Zwerts J., Sist P., 2015. Degradação florestal na Amazônia: como ultrapassar os limites conceituais, científicos e técnicos para mudar esse cenário. Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Bélem, Documentos 413, 31 p., ISSN 1983-0513. https://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1027698
Rutishauser E., Hérault B., Baraloto C., Blanc L., Descroix L., Doff Sotta E., Ferreira J., Kanashiro M., Mazzei L., Oliveira M.V.N., de Oliveira L.C., Peña-Claros M., Putz F.E., Ruschel A.R., Rodney K., Roopsind A., Shenkin A., da Silva K.E., de Souza C.R., Toledo M., Vidal E., West T.A.P., Wortel V., Sist P., 2015. Rapid tree carbon recovery in Amazonian logged forests. Current Biology 25 (18): R787-R788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.034
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