Title:	Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon.
Authors:	NUNES, C. A. BERENGUER, E. FRANÇA, F. FERREIRA, J. N. LEES, A. C. LOUZADA, J. SAYER, E. J. SOLAR, R. SMITH, C. C. ARAGÃO, L. E. O. C. BRAGA, D. de L. CAMARGO, P. B. de CERRI, C. E. P. OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, R. C. de DURIGAN, M. MOURA, N. OLIVEIRA, V. H. F. RIBAS, C. VAZ-DE-MELLO, F. VIEIRA, I. ZANETTI, R. BARLOW, J.
Affiliation:	CÁSSIO ALENCAR NUNES, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS ERIKA BERENGUER, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY FILIPE FRANÇA, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL JOICE NUNES FERREIRA, CPATU ALEXANDER C. LEES, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY JULIO LOUZADA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS EMMA J. SAYER, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY RICARDO SOLAR, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS CHARLOTTE C. SMITH, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY LUIZ E. O. C. ARAGÃO, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS DANIELLE DE LIMA BRAGA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS PLINIO BARBOSA DE CAMARGO, UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO CARLOS EDUARDO PELLEGRINO CERRI, UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO RAIMUNDO COSME DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, CPATU MARIANA DURIGAN, UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO NÁRGILA MOURA, MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI VICTOR HUGO FONSECA OLIVEIRA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS CARLA RIBAS, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS FERNANDO VAZ-DE-MELLO, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MATO GROSSO IMA VIEIRA, MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI RONALD ZANETTI, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS JOS BARLOW, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS.
Date Issued:	2022
Citation:	PNAS, v. 119, n. 27, e2202310119, 2022.
Description:	Human activities pose a major threat to tropical forest biodiversity and ecosystem serv-ices. Although the impacts of deforestation are well studied, multiple land-use andland-cover transitions (LULCTs) occur in tropical landscapes, and we do not knowhow LULCTs differ in their rates or impacts on key ecosystem components. Here, wequantified the impacts of 18 LULCTs on three ecosystem components (biodiversity,carbon, and soil), based on 18 variables collected from 310 sites in the BrazilianAmazon. Across all LULCTs, biodiversity was the most affected ecosystem component,followed by carbon stocks, but the magnitude of change differed widely amongLULCTs and individual variables. Forest clearance for pasture was the most prevalentand high-impact transition, but we also identified other LULCTs with high impact butlower prevalence (e.g., forest to agriculture). Our study demonstrates the importanceof considering multiple ecosystem components and LULCTs to understand the conse-quences of human activities in tropical landscapes
Thesagro:	Biodiversidade Carbono Desmatamento Degradação Ambiental Exploração Florestal
NAL Thesaurus:	Biodiversity Carbon Deforestation Degradation Logging
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220231011
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CPATU)