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dc.contributor.authorVancine, Maurício Humberto
dc.contributor.authorMuylaert, Renata L.
dc.contributor.authorNiebuhr, Bernardo Brandão
dc.contributor.authorOshima, Júlia Emi Faria
dc.contributor.authorTonetti, Vinicius
dc.contributor.authorBernardo, Rodrigo
dc.contributor.authorde Angelo, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorRosa, Marcos Reis
dc.contributor.authorGrohmann, Carlos Henrique
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Milton Cezar
dc.coverage.spatialAtlantic Forest, South Americaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T10:35:29Z
dc.date.available2024-06-21T10:35:29Z
dc.date.created2024-02-29T10:19:56Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.issn0006-3207
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3135263
dc.description.abstractThe Atlantic Forest in South America (AF) is one of the world's most diverse and threatened biodiversity hotspots. We present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of 34 years of AF landscape change between 1986 and 2020. We analyzed landscape metrics of forest vegetation only (FV), forest plus other natural vegetation (NV), and the sensitivity of metrics to linear infrastructure. Currently, the AF remnants comprise 22.9% of FV and 36.3% of NV, an extent that has decreased by 2.4% and 3.6% since 1986, respectively. Linear infrastructure affected mainly the largest fragments (>500,000 ha), reducing their size by 56%–94%. The period before 2005 was characterized by loss of FV and NV (3% and 3.43%) and decrease in the number of FV and NV fragments (8.6% and 8.1%). In contrast, after 2005 the vegetation stabilized, with a recovery of 1 Mha of FV (0.6%) and an increase in the number of fragments, due in part to environmental policies. However, the AF is still a highly fragmented domain: 97% of the vegetation fragments are small (<50 ha), with an average fragment size between 16.3 and 25.5 ha; 50–60% of the vegetation is <90 m from its edges, and the isolation between fragments is high (250–830 m). Protected areas and indigenous territories cover only 10% of the AF vegetation, and most vegetation lies are >10 km in these areas. Our work highlights the importance of legislation and analysis of landscape dynamics to help future conservation and restoration programs for biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest. Landscape structure Habitat loss Habitat fragmentation Edge effect Isolation Connectivityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservationen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://github.com/LEEClab/ms-atlantic-forest-spatiotemporal-dynamics
dc.subjectLandscape structureen_US
dc.subjectHabitat lossen_US
dc.subjectHabitat fragmentationen_US
dc.subjectEdge effecten_US
dc.subjectIsolationen_US
dc.subjectConnectivityen_US
dc.titleThe Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservationen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservationen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Zoology and botany: 480en_US
dc.source.volume291en_US
dc.source.journalBiological Conservationen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110499
dc.identifier.cristin2250925
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 160022/F40en_US
dc.source.articlenumber110499en_US
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