Forests,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(3), P. 466 - 466
Published: March 16, 2022
We
review
the
consequences
of
environmental
changes
caused
by
human
activities
on
forest
products
and
forest-dependent
communities
in
Amazon
region—the
vast
Amazonas
River
basin
Guiana
Shield
South
America.
used
2018
2021
Intergovernmental
Panel
Climate
Change
reports
recent
scientific
studies
to
present
evidence
hypotheses
for
ecosystem
productivity
geographical
distribution
plants
species.
have
identified
species
associated
with
highly
employed
exhibiting
reducing
populations,
mainly
linked
deforestation
selective
logging.
Changes
composition
along
a
decline
valuable
been
observed
eastern,
central,
southern
regions
Brazilian
Amazon,
suggesting
accelerated
biodiversity
loss.
Over
1
billion
native
trees
palms
are
being
lost
every
two
years,
causing
economic
losses
estimated
between
US$1–17
billion.
A
decrease
plant
can
be
abrupt
both
temporary
or
persistent
over
20
leading
reduced
opportunities
communities.
Science
technology
investments
considered
promising
implementing
agroforestry
systems
recovering
deforested
degraded
lands,
which
could
engage
companies
that
use
due
supply
chain
advantages.
Ecological Indicators,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
142, P. 109227 - 109227
Published: July 30, 2022
Grasping
the
interrelationship
between
supply
and
demand
of
ecosystem
services
spatial
temporal
characteristics
scale
is
foundation
sustainable
management.
This
paper
uses
Chongqing
section
Three
Gorges
Reservoir
area
as
study
area,
based
on
three
scales
county,
10-km
1-km
grids;
value
equivalent
method,
quantification
social
economic
indicators,
overlap
method
are
used
to
measure
supply,
supply-demand
matching
in
during
2000,
2010
2018.
The
results
described
follows:
(1)
from
2000
2018,
service
(ESSV)
at
all
showed
a
distribution
pattern
“increasing
upstream
downstream”
along
Yangtze
River.
Compared
with
county
scale,
trend
ESSV
grid
was
more
complex.
(2)
(ESD)
each
“decreasing
global
equilibrium
significant.
(3)
included
four
types:
“high-high”,
“low-low”,
“high-low”
“low-high”.
phenomenon
mismatch
overall
prominent.
space
grid-scale
dislocation
shrinking,
areas
high-high
low-low
were
increasing,
regional
balanced.
coordinated
development
ecology
economy
even
remarkable.
There
differences
correlations
different
scales.
We
propose
hierarchical
targeted
suggestions
improvement
measures
for
support
implementation
differentiated
management,
enhance
services,
enrich
demand.
PLoS ONE,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
17(5), P. e0268425 - e0268425
Published: May 19, 2022
The
main
objective
of
this
study
is
to
assess
the
economic
value
Brazilian
Amazon’s
ecosystem
services
accruing
Brazilians
based
on
a
meta-analysis
valuation
literature.
Insight
in
these
local
values
provides
an
important
benchmark
demonstrate
importance
preserving
Amazon
forest.
review
covers
almost
30
years
research
Amazon,
published
predominantly
Portuguese,
highlighting
high
degree
and
data
heterogeneity.
estimated
mean
provision
habitat
for
species,
carbon
sequestration,
water
regulation,
recreation
ecotourism
populations
about
410
USD/ha/year.
standard
deviation
however
high,
reflecting
wide
dispersion
distribution
values.
Between
50
70
percent
variation
can
be
explained
with
help
meta-regression
models,
resulting
considerable
prediction
errors
when
applying
within-sample
resampling
procedure.
These
findings
need
more
robust,
common
accounting
framework
before
scaled
up
aggregated
across
entire
Amazon.
Environmental Research Letters,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
18(7), P. 073001 - 073001
Published: May 10, 2023
Abstract
The
Amazon
biome,
spanning
nine
countries,
has
one
of
the
highest
rates
deforestation
worldwide.
This
contributes
to
biodiversity
loss,
climate
change,
spread
infectious
diseases,
and
damage
rural
indigenous
livelihoods.
Hundreds
articles
have
been
published
on
topic
across
Amazonia,
yet
there
no
recent
synthesis
drivers
deforestation-control
policy
effectiveness
in
region.
Here
we
undertook
first
systematic
review
papers
between
2000
2021
that
causally
linked
proximate
underlying
policies
outcomes
Amazonia.
In
155
met
our
inclusion
criteria,
find
causal
research
is
concentrated
Brazil,
a
lesser
degree
Peru,
Ecuador,
Bolivia.
There
little
study
Guianas,
Venezuela
or
Colombia.
Large-
small-scale
agriculture
improved
market
access
high
agricultural
prices
are
frequently
researched
heavily
regions.
Guianas
focuses
mining
with
focus
causes.
Research
infrastructure
expansion,
mining,
oil
extraction
technological,
sociocultural,
institutional
factors
remains
sparse.
Many
public
private
found
be
effective
controlling
protected
areas
standing
out
as
particularly
successful
slowing
vis-à-vis
supply
chain
approaches.
Frontier
age,
land
tenure,
interactions
key
moderating
affecting
different
causes
policies.
Our
findings
indicate
greater
need
for
(i)
additional
beyond
economic
factors,
(ii)
complex
control
policies,
(iii)
low
new
areas,
(iv)
dynamics
Amazonian
subregions
countries.
Understanding
extent
diversity
existing
mitigation
Amazonia
necessary
step
toward
designing
further
reduce
biome.
Biological Conservation,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
279, P. 109928 - 109928
Published: Feb. 6, 2023
Established
in
2002,
the
Amazon
Protected
Areas
Program
(ARPA)
supports
120
Conservation
Units
(CUs)
Brazilian
Amazon,
covering
62
Mha.
Here,
we
quantified
impact
of
ARPA
support
on
reducing
deforestation
and
CO2
emissions
between
2008
2020.
We
started
by
examining
critical
methodological
choices,
often
brushed
over
evaluation
studies
protected
areas
(PAs).
then
applied
a
covariate
balancing
method
to
control
for
variation
covariates
so
as
compare
differences
Strictly
(SP)
Sustainable
Use
(SU)
CUs
with
without
well
assess
influence
investment
mechanism
differential
reductions.
Next,
estimated
total
reductions
using
Adjusted
Odds
Ratio.
found
that
accounts
additional
9
%
SP
39
SU
relation
non-supported
CUs.
The
effects
were
statistically
significant
both
categories
plus
Indigenous
Lands
(i.e.,
PAs)
reduced
21
(2.0
±
0.3
Mha)
Of
this
total,
264
25
thousand
ha,
equivalent
104
10
Mtons
emissions.
If
continues
unabated,
PAs
will
become
last
citadels
Amazon.
However,
protecting
only
does
not
suffice.
Additional
investments
comprehensive
conservation
policy
mix
are
needed
along
monitoring
strategy
provide
evidence
what
works
effective
socially
equitable
forest
conservation.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
22(1), P. 1 - 7
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The
Brazilian
Amazon
is
one
of
Earth's
most
biodiverse
and
ecologically
important
regions.
However,
research
investments
for
biodiversity
in
the
biome
are
disproportionately
low
compared
with
other
regions
Brazil.
In
2022,
received
13%
master's,
doctoral
postdoctoral
scholarships
hosted
11%
all
researchers
working
postgraduate
programs.
Amazonian
institutions
approximately
10%
federal
budget
spent
on
grants
about
23%
resources
destined
to
support
long-term
ecological
sites.
cities
Manaus
Belém
concentrate
90%
available
entire
region.
Despite
per
capita
investment
being
equal
or
better
than
that
more
economically
developed
Brazil,
distribution
by
area
highly
unequal.
Increasing
funding
region
requires
differential
input
agencies
transnational
collaborations
integration
between
programs
international
funds.
Tourism Management,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
77, P. 104010 - 104010
Published: Oct. 18, 2019
The
technology-driven
application
of
big
data
is
expected
to
assist
policymaking
towards
sustainable
development;
however,
the
relevant
literature
has
not
addressed
human
welfare
under
climate
change,
which
limits
understanding
change
impacts
on
societies.
We
present
first
unique
mobile
phone
network
evaluate
current
nation-wide
coastal
tourism
at
Japanese
beaches
and
project
value
using
four
scenarios.
results
show
that
projected
national
economic
loss
rates
are
more
significant
than
physical
beach
rates.
Our
findings
demonstrate
regional
differences
in
recreational
values:
most
southern
with
larger
values
would
disappear,
while
small
northern
remain.
These
changes
imply
ranks
beaches,
based
values,
enable
policymakers
discuss
management
priorities
change.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: Jan. 24, 2020
Abstract
Global
patterns
of
species
and
evolutionary
diversity
in
plants
are
primarily
determined
by
a
temperature
gradient,
but
precipitation
gradients
may
be
more
important
within
the
tropics,
where
plant
richness
is
positively
associated
with
amount
rainfall.
The
impact
on
distribution
diversity,
however,
largely
unexplored.
Here
we
detail
how
varies
along
bringing
together
comprehensive
database
composition
angiosperm
tree
communities
across
lowland
tropical
South
America
(2,025
inventories
from
wet
to
arid
biomes),
new,
large-scale
phylogenetic
hypothesis
for
genera
that
occur
these
ecosystems.
We
find
marked
reduction
at
low
precipitation.
However,
unlike
richness,
does
not
continually
increase
Rather,
our
results
show
greatest
found
intermediate
regimes,
there
decline
above
1,490
mm
mean
annual
If
conservation
prioritise
areas
American
‘arc
deforestation’,
which
have
been
neglected
design
protected
area
networks
merit
increased
attention.
