Biodiversity loss along a gradient of deforestation in Amazonian landscapes.

Decaëns T., Martins M.B., Feijoo A., Oszwald J., Dolédec S., Mathieu J., De Sartre X.A., Bonilla D., Brown G.G., Cuellar Criollo Y.A., Dubs F., Furtado I.S., Gond V., Gordillo E., Le Clec'h S., Marichal R., Mitja D., de Souza I.M., Praxedes C., Rougerie R., Ruiz D.H., Otero J.T., Velasquez A., Zararte L.E.M., Lavelle P.
2018

Assessing how much management of agricultural landscapes, in addition to protected areas, can offset biodiversity erosion in the tropics is a central issue for conservation that still requires cross?taxonomic and landscape?scale studies. We measured the effects of Amazonia deforestation and subsequent land?use intensification in 6 agricultural areas (landscape scale), where we sampled plants and ...

Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières; Economie et politique foncières