Early stages of crop expansion have little effect on farm-scale vegetation patterns in a Cerrado biome working landscape

•The relationship between farming systems and vegetation patterns was explored.•Five farm types were identified based on ranching and cropping activities.•Farming systems had little influence on farm-scale vegetation patterns.•Current crop expansion in the studied region mainly affected pastures and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Landscape and urban planning Jg. 223; S. 104422
Hauptverfasser: Blanco, Julien, Bellón, Beatriz, Barthelemy, Liane, Camus, Baptiste, De Palmas, Aurélie, Fillon, Inès, Jaffré, Louise, Masson, Anne-Sophie, Masure, Alix, Roque, Fabio De O., Souza, Franco L., Bolzan, Fabio, Melo, Isabel, Dalponti, Guilherme, Giroux, Aline, Madruga, Dinah, Vaillant, Michel, Renaud, Pierre-Cyril
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2022
Elsevier
Schlagworte:
biodiversity conservation
Brazil
cerrado
Deforestation
ecosystems
Environment and Society
Environmental Sciences
farms
forests
Fragmentation
land cover
Land-use change
Landscape analysis
landscapes
national parks
pastures
Ranching systems
Remote sensing
trees
Brazil
Deforestation
Landscape analysis
Ranching systems
Land-use change
Remote sensing
Fragmentation
ISSN:0169-2046, 1872-6062
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Zusammenfassung:•The relationship between farming systems and vegetation patterns was explored.•Five farm types were identified based on ranching and cropping activities.•Farming systems had little influence on farm-scale vegetation patterns.•Current crop expansion in the studied region mainly affected pastures and not forests.•High resolution land cover maps should be used in future research and policies. In addition to protected areas, sustainable working landscapes are key to successful biodiversity conservation. Yet such landscapes are threatened by rapid crop expansion, in particular in Brazil. In this context, this study explores the influence of farming systems on farm-scale vegetation patterns around the Serra da Bodoquena National Park in Mato Grosso do Sul. To collect data on farming systems and how they are evolving, we conducted interviews at 40 farms covering 120,000 ha, including eight farms with land within the national park. To assess vegetation patterns, we conducted pixel-wise and landscape analyses based on MapBiomas land cover maps from which we calculated seven metrics over the 2009–2019 period. Using multivariate methods, we identified the activities that differentiated farming systems, isolating five farm types with contrasting involvement in crop cultivation and ranching. We found that most farm-scale landscape metrics were only weakly influenced by farming systems. Temporal analyses and interviews suggested that biophysical and legislative contexts limit crop expansion, which mainly occurred at the expense of old pastures and did not directly impact forest proportion within farms. As a consequence, crop expansion in the region seemed to mainly affect small tree patches in pasture areas, making its effect on vegetation patterns barely detectable with 30-m resolution imagery. These findings suggest that rather than focusing solely on deforestation, monitoring the dynamics of wooded pastures with high-resolution images is crucial to assess the early effects of crop expansion on vegetation patterns and to ensure the conservation of biodiversity-friendly agricultural matrices around protected areas in Brazil.
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ISSN:0169-2046
1872-6062
DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104422