@InProceedings{FerreiraBTBALLBFMOSLSPFGVMG:2017:InAvFo,
               author = "Ferreira, Joice and Barlow, Jos and Thompson, Jim and Berenguer, 
                         Erika and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de and Lees, 
                         Alexander and Lennox, Gareth and Brancalion, Pedro and Ferraz, 
                         Silvio and Moura, N{\'a}rgila and Oliveira, Victor Hugo and 
                         Solar, Ricardo and Louzada, Julio and S{\^a}mia, Nunes and Parry, 
                         Luke and Fonseca, Thiago and Garrett, Rachel and Vieira, Ima and 
                         MacNally, Ralph and Gardner, Toby",
          affiliation = "EMBRAPA and {Lancaster University} and {University of Canberra} 
                         and {University of Lancaster} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Manchester University} and {Lancaster 
                         University} and {Universidade de S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)} and 
                         {Universidade de S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)} and {Museu Paraense Emilio 
                         Goeldi} and {Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)} and 
                         {Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)} and {Universidade 
                         Federal de Lavras (UFLA)} and Imazon and {University of Lancaster} 
                         and {Universidade Federal do ABC} and {Boston University} and 
                         {Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi} and {University of Canberra} and 
                         {Stockholm Environment Institute}",
                title = "Integrating the avoidance of forest degradation into systematic 
                         conservation planning in the Eastern Amazon (Invited)",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "Undisturbed forests are becoming increasingly rare in the tropics. 
                         The area of forest degraded by some form of disturbance, such as 
                         logging or fire, in the Brazilian Amazon now greatly exceeds that 
                         which had been deforested. Yet forest policy in the Amazon, as 
                         elsewhere in the tropics, remains overwhelmingly focused curbing 
                         the rate of forest loss without considering impacts on forest 
                         quality. We use a unique data set from the Sustainable Amazon 
                         Network (RAS), in the eastern Brazilian Amazon to assess the 
                         impacts of forest disturbance on biodiversity and assess the 
                         benefits of including avoided degradation measures in conservation 
                         planning. Biodiversity data on trees and fauna from two large 
                         regions, Santar{\'e}m and Paragominas, were combined with remote 
                         sensing data to model biodiversity patterns as well as estimates 
                         of above-ground carbon stocks across a range of land-use types and 
                         forest conditions. We found that impact of forest disturbance on 
                         biodiversity loss in the state of Par{\'a} equates to double that 
                         lost from deforestation alone, -the equivalent of losing 
                         92,000139,000 km2 of primary forest. We found a strong positive 
                         relationship between increasing carbon stocks and higher 
                         biodiversity in varyingly disturbed forests. Simulations 
                         demonstrated that a carbon-focused conservation strategy is least 
                         effective at conserving biodiversity in the least disturbed 
                         forests, highlighting the importance of on-the-ground biodiversity 
                         surveys to prioritise conservation investments in the most species 
                         rich forests. We explored trade-offs among management actions to 
                         guide priorities for habitat protection, avoided degradation and 
                         restoration and found that where restoration imposes significant 
                         opportunity and implementation costs, efforts to avoid and reverse 
                         the degradation of existing forests can deliver greater returns on 
                         investment for biodiversity conservation. Systemic planning of 
                         forest management options at regional scales can substantially 
                         improve biodiversity outcomes while greatly reducing costs and 
                         risks. These results provide new and valuable information for 
                         regulators, conservation practitioners and landowners in this 
                         biologically unique region.",
  conference-location = "New Orleans",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "ferreira_integrating.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}