Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot
Protected areas (PAs) are a widely recognized tool for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. However, megadiverse countries struggle to manage, maintain, and expand PAs as they face mounting human pressures. The Brazilian Cerrado biome (a biodiversity hotspot) is experiencing increasing land-use...
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| author | Nubia C.S. Marques Ricardo B. Machado Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar Luciana Mendonça-Galvão Rosana Tidon Emerson M. Vieira Onildo J. Marini-Filho Mercedes Bustamante |
| author_facet | Nubia C.S. Marques Ricardo B. Machado Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar Luciana Mendonça-Galvão Rosana Tidon Emerson M. Vieira Onildo J. Marini-Filho Mercedes Bustamante |
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| description | Protected areas (PAs) are a widely recognized tool for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. However, megadiverse countries struggle to manage, maintain, and expand PAs as they face mounting human pressures. The Brazilian Cerrado biome (a biodiversity hotspot) is experiencing increasing land-use changes paired with a loss of natural vegetation, and only 3.2% of its land area is under strict protections. The Brazilian Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) was created in 1997 to monitor long-term changes in protected and non-protected areas in Brazilian biomes. The Environmental Protected Area of the Gama and Cabeça de Veado (AGCV) watersheds in Central Brazil's core distribution of the Cerrado (Brasília, Federal District), was one of the first sites to participate in the Brazilian LTER. The main goal of the AGCV-LTER site is to monitor long-term changes and ecological processes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in PAs that are surrounded by landscapes facing extreme ecosystem shifts. Over 22 years, we investigated the effects of drivers such as fire, noise and light pollution, eutrophication, and biological invasions on aquatic (invertebrates and water quality) and terrestrial ecosystems (vegetation, vertebrates, and invertebrates). The results indicate that even within a PA, changes in the surrounding landscape affects biodiversity and ecosystem functions, revealing the essential nature of continuous monitoring for biodiversity conservation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-032dbb25dfb144eaba7ad90c2c18214e2022-12-22T00:32:11ZengElsevierPerspectives in Ecology and Conservation2530-06442022-04-012026978Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspotNubia C.S. Marques0Ricardo B. Machado1Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar2Luciana Mendonça-Galvão3Rosana Tidon4Emerson M. Vieira5Onildo J. Marini-Filho6Mercedes Bustamante7Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brazil; Vale Institute of Technology-Sustainable Development, Belém, Brazil; Corresponding author.Department of Zoology, University of Brasília, BrazilDepartment of Zoology, University of Brasília, BrazilCatholic University of Brasília, BrazilDepartment of Genetic and Morphology, University of Brasília, BrazilDepartment of Ecology, University of Brasília, BrazilChico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, BrazilDepartment of Ecology, University of Brasília, BrazilProtected areas (PAs) are a widely recognized tool for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. However, megadiverse countries struggle to manage, maintain, and expand PAs as they face mounting human pressures. The Brazilian Cerrado biome (a biodiversity hotspot) is experiencing increasing land-use changes paired with a loss of natural vegetation, and only 3.2% of its land area is under strict protections. The Brazilian Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) was created in 1997 to monitor long-term changes in protected and non-protected areas in Brazilian biomes. The Environmental Protected Area of the Gama and Cabeça de Veado (AGCV) watersheds in Central Brazil's core distribution of the Cerrado (Brasília, Federal District), was one of the first sites to participate in the Brazilian LTER. The main goal of the AGCV-LTER site is to monitor long-term changes and ecological processes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in PAs that are surrounded by landscapes facing extreme ecosystem shifts. Over 22 years, we investigated the effects of drivers such as fire, noise and light pollution, eutrophication, and biological invasions on aquatic (invertebrates and water quality) and terrestrial ecosystems (vegetation, vertebrates, and invertebrates). The results indicate that even within a PA, changes in the surrounding landscape affects biodiversity and ecosystem functions, revealing the essential nature of continuous monitoring for biodiversity conservation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064422000116BiodiversityConservationLTERPELDCerrado |
| spellingShingle | Nubia C.S. Marques Ricardo B. Machado Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar Luciana Mendonça-Galvão Rosana Tidon Emerson M. Vieira Onildo J. Marini-Filho Mercedes Bustamante Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation Biodiversity Conservation LTER PELD Cerrado |
| title | Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| title_full | Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| title_fullStr | Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| title_short | Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| title_sort | drivers of change in tropical protected areas long term monitoring of a brazilian biodiversity hotspot |
| topic | Biodiversity Conservation LTER PELD Cerrado |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064422000116 |
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