Natural forest regeneration on anthropized landscapes could overcome climate change effects on the endangered maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus, Illiger 1811)

dc.contributor.authorSantos, Paloma Marques [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorFerraz, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Milton Cezar [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorNiebuhr, Bernardo Brandão [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorVancine, Maurício Humberto [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorChiarello, Adriano Garcia
dc.contributor.authorPaglia, Adriano Pereira
dc.contributor.institutionInovações e Comunicações
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
dc.contributor.institutionInstituto de Pesquisa e Conservação de Tamanduás no Brasil
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)
dc.contributor.institutionNorwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T13:53:10Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T13:53:10Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.description.abstractClimate change and habitat loss have been identified as the main causes of species extinction. Forest regeneration and protected areas are essential to buffer climate change impacts and to ensure quality habitats for threatened species. We assessed the current and future environmental suitability for the maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, under both future climate and forest restoration scenarios, using ecological niche modeling. We compared environmental suitability for two Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUnorth and ESUsouth) using two climate change scenarios for 2070, and three potential forest regeneration scenarios. Likewise, we evaluated the protection degree of the suitable areas resulting from the models, according to Brazilian law: PA - Protected Areas; PPA - Permanent Protection Areas (environmentally sensitive areas in private properties); and LR - Legal Reserves (natural vegetation areas in private properties). Finally, we calculated the deficit of PPA and LR in each ESU, considering the current forest cover. Forest regeneration might mitigate the deleterious effects of climate change by maintaining and increasing environmental suitability in future scenarios. The ESUnorth contains more suitable areas (21,570 km²) than the ESUsouth (12,386 km²), with an increase in all future scenarios (up to 45,648 km² of new suitable areas), while ESUsouth might have a significant decrease (up to 7,546 km² less). Suitable areas are mostly unprotected (ESUnorth - 65.5% and ESUsouth - 58.3%). Therefore, PPA and PA can maintain only a small portion of current and future suitable areas. Both ESUs present a high deficit of PPA and LR, highlighting the necessity to act in the recovery of these areas to accomplish a large-scale restoration, mitigate climate change effects, and achieve, at least, a minimum forested area to safeguard the species. Notwithstanding, a long-term conservation of B. torquatus will benefit from forest regeneration besides those minimum requirements, allied to the protection of forest areas.en
dc.description.affiliationInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA) Ministerio da Ciência Tecnologia Inovações e Comunicações, Av. Jose Ruschi, 4, Santa Teresa
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Ecologia & Conservação (LEC) Departamento de Genetica Ecologia e Evolução Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Presidente Antônio Carlos, 6627, , Minas Gerais
dc.description.affiliationInstituto de Pesquisa e Conservação de Tamanduás no Brasil, Rua Acanã, 11, , Bahia
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Ecologia Espacial e Conservação (LEEC) Departamento de Biodiversidade Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Av. 24 A 1515, São Paulo
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Ecologia Manejo e Conservação de Fauna Silvestre (LEMaC) Departamento de Ciências Florestais Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ) Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Pádua Dias 11, , São Paulo
dc.description.affiliationCentro de Estudos Ambientais (CEA) Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Av. 24 A, 1515, Rio Claro
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Terrestrial Biodiversity Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Postbox 5685
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Ecologia e Conservação (LAEC) Departamento de Biologia Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo
dc.description.affiliationUnespLaboratório de Ecologia Espacial e Conservação (LEEC) Departamento de Biodiversidade Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Av. 24 A 1515, São Paulo
dc.description.affiliationUnespCentro de Estudos Ambientais (CEA) Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Av. 24 A, 1515, Rio Claro
dc.format.extent1383-1396
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac084
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Mammalogy, v. 103, n. 6, p. 1383-1396, 2022.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jmammal/gyac084
dc.identifier.issn1545-1542
dc.identifier.issn0022-2372
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85156152181
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/248767
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Mammalogy
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAtlantic Forest
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjectforest regeneration
dc.subjectlandscape ecology
dc.subjectPilosa
dc.subjectXenarthra
dc.titleNatural forest regeneration on anthropized landscapes could overcome climate change effects on the endangered maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus, Illiger 1811)en
dc.typeArtigo

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