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Designing multifunctional landscapes for forest conservation

Designing multifunctional landscapes for forest conservation

Santika, Truly ORCID: 0000-0002-3125-9467, Meijaard, Erik and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015) Designing multifunctional landscapes for forest conservation. Environmental Research Letters, 10 (11):114012. ISSN 1748-9326 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114012)

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Abstract

A multifunctional landscape approach to forest protection has been advocated for tropical countries. Designing such landscapes necessitates that the role of different land uses in protecting forest be evaluated, along with the spatial interactions between land uses. However, such evaluations have been hindered by a lack of suitable analysis methodologies and data with fine spatial resolution over long time periods. We demonstrate the utility of a matching method with multiple categories to evaluate the role of alternative land uses in protecting forest. We also assessed the impact of land use change trajectories on the rate of deforestation. We employed data from Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) at three different time periods during 2000–2012 to illustrate our approach. Four single land uses (protected areas (PA), natural forest logging concessions (LC), timber plantation concessions (TC) and oil-palm plantation concessions (OC)) and two mixed land uses (mixed concessions and the overlap between concessions and PA) were assessed. The rate of deforestation was found to be lowest for PA, followed by LC. Deforestation rates for all land uses tended to be highest for locations that share the characteristics of areas in which TC or OC are located (e.g. degraded areas), suggesting that these areas are inherently more susceptible to deforestation due to foregone opportunities. Our approach provides important insights into how multifunctional landscapes can be designed to enhance the protection of biodiversity.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: deforestation; Indonesia; industrial plantations; Kalimantan; land-use change; logging concessions; oil palm plantations; protected areas; timber plantations
Subjects: S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Agriculture, Health & Environment Department
Last Modified: 07 Jul 2020 13:03
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28365

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