Letter/Communication
Associations between socio-environmental factors and landscape-scale biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating tropical and subtropical forests
Conservation Letters, Vol.14(2), pp.1-9
2021
Abstract
Natural regeneration is key for large-scale forest restoration, yet it may lead to different biodiversity outcomes depending on socio-environmental context. We combined the results of a global meta-analysis to quantify how biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating forests deviates from biodiversity values in reference old-growth forests, with structural equation modeling, to identify direct and indirect associations between socioeconomic, biophysical and ecological factors and deviation in biodiversity recovery at a landscape scale. Low deviation within a landscape means higher chances of multiple sites in naturally regenerating forests successfully recovering biodiversity compared to reference forests. Deviation in biodiversity recovery was directly negatively associated with the percentage of cropland, forest cover, and positively associated with the percentage of urban areas in the surrounding landscape. These three factors mediated the indirect associations with rural population size, recent gross deforestation, time since natural regeneration started, mean annual temperature, mean annual water deficit, road density, land opportunity cost, percentage cover of strictly protected forest areas, and human population variation in the surrounding landscape. We suggest that natural forest restoration should be prioritized in landscapes with both low socioeconomic pressures on land use conversion to pasturelands and urban areas, and high percentage of forest cover.
Details
- Title
- Associations between socio-environmental factors and landscape-scale biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating tropical and subtropical forests
- Authors
- Renato Crouzeilles (Corresponding Author) - Universidade Veiga de AlmeidaDaniel Maurenza (Author) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroPablo V Prieto (Author) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroFelipe S M Barros (Author) - International Institute for Sustainability AustraliaCatarina Jakovac (Author) - Wageningen University & ResearchMariana S Ferreira (Author) - Universidade Veiga de AlmeidaRobin Chazdon (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastDavid B Lindenmayer (Author) - Australian National UniversityPedro H. S Brancalion (Author) - University of Sao PauloEliane Ceccon (Author) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCristina Adams (Author) - University of Sao PauloElena Lazos-Chavero (Author) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoLara Monteiro (Author) - International Institute for SustainabilityAndré B Junqueira (Author) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroBernardo B N Strassburg (Author) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroManuel R Guariguata (Author) - Center for International Forestry Research
- Publication details
- Conservation Letters, Vol.14(2), pp.1-9
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.1111/conl.12768
- ISSN
- 1755-263X
- Copyright note
- © 2020 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99482299802621
- Output Type
- Letter/Communication
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