@Article{CarvalhoAguiAmar:2020:DiCaRa,
author = "Carvalho, Raquel and Aguiar, Ana Paula Dutra de and Amaral,
Silvana",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Diversity of cattle raising systems and its effects over forest
regrowth in a core region of cattle production in the Brazilian
Amazon",
journal = "Regional Environmental Change",
year = "2020",
volume = "20",
number = "2",
pages = "UNSP44",
month = "mar.",
keywords = "Cattle raising systems, Pasture management, Forest regrowth,
Intensification, Brazilian Amazon.",
abstract = "Roughly 60% of all deforested lands in the Brazilian Amazon are
covered with pastures, putting cattle raising in evidence as a
major driver of deforestation and also of forests' regrowth.
Still, the role of cattle raising diversity in the landscape
dynamics of this region remains poorly understood. To contribute
to this discussion, we combined data from semi-structured
interviews and quantitative spatially explicit methods to
characterize and spatialize cattle raising systems and explore the
effects of this diversity over secondary vegetation between 2004
and 2014 in Para, a hotspot of deforestation and core region of
cattle production. We quantified the use of different pasture
management strategies to classify small- and large-scale
operations into systems with high or low impact against pastures'
degradation. High-impact systems were mapped in regions with
consolidated infrastructure and high accumulated deforestation,
where they expanded. On the contrary, low-impact systems were more
widespread and found near forest frontiers, shrinking over time.
High-impact systems had less secondary vegetation, while under
low-impact systems, as a result of strategies with little or no
effect against degradation, the historical pattern of
concentration of this cover prevailed. Better infrastructure and
access to markets as well as higher accumulated deforestation are
underlying conditions related to the emergence of intensification
and, as it is still unclear whether intensification is indeed
capable of sparing land, the expansion of intensive cattle raising
systems has the potential to configure landscapes with reduced
forested areas, either primary or secondary.",
doi = "10.1007/s10113-020-01626-5",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01626-5",
issn = "1436-3798 and 1436-378X",
language = "en",
targetfile = "carvalho_diversity.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}