Proposal of an integrated and operational framework for monitoring the quality of areas in restoration process in the Atlantic Rain Forest

• Grant number: 19/09713-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: January 01, 2020
• End date: December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences
• Principal Investigator: Milton Cezar Ribeiro
• Grantee: Juliana Silveira dos Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/00166-5 - Proposal of an integrated and operational framework for monitoring the quality of secondary forests dynamics in the Atlantic Forest, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Projects aimed at the natural habitats restoration have been implemented and in the next years, the tendency is for an increase of natural vegetation areas in Brazil. In addition to increasing areas of natural vegetation, restoration should promote ecological functions to prevent the establishment of empty forests. In addition, to the immediate challenges to identify priority areas for restoration, in the future it will be necessary to obtain information on the quality of these areas. Monitoring of multiple plots of vegetation in situ is an expensive and time-consuming process and, therefore, auxiliary information from remote sensors can be an efficient alternative to facilitate the acquisition of this information. In this context, our objective in this project is to generate an integrated and operational framework to monitor the restored areas' quality on a large scale. Restored areas in the Atlantic Rain Forest will be used as a model to compose this framework, due to pre-existing in situ information. Spectral traits will be identified to characterize vegetation quality and the relationship between the quality of these areas and the level of landscape hemeroby. With this project we will define for the first time a framework based in situ and orbital data on a large scale for vegetation quality monitoring. We will generate functional information of the vegetation from free orbital technologies, reliable and that may be an option to technologies that due to its specific knowledge and analyses (e.g. LIDAR) and can compromise a large scale monitoring.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; MIZIARA, FAUSTO; FERNANDES, HAYLA DA SILVA; MIRANDA, RENATO CEZAR; COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA. Technification in Dairy Farms May Reconcile Habitat Conservation in a Brazilian Savanna Region. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 13, n. 10, MAY 2021. (19/09713-6)

DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; VITORINO, LUCIANA CRISTINA; GONCALVES, RENATA FABREGA; CORTES, MARINA CORREA; CRUZ ALVES, RAFAEL SOUZA; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA. Matrix dominance and landscape resistance affect genetic variability and differentiation of an Atlantic Forest pioneer tree. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, v. 37, n. 10, p. 21-pg., 2022-08-14. (20/01779-5, 21/10195-0, 18/19011-6, 19/09713-6, 21/08534-0, 13/50421-2, 19/03005-0)

DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; FELTRAN-BARBIERI, RAFAEL; FONTE, ELLEN S.; BALMFORD, ANDREW; MAIOLI, VERONICA; LATAWIEC, AGNIESZKA; STRASSBURG, BERNARDO B. N.; PHALAN, BENJAMIN T.. Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 10, n. 1, FEB 6 2020. (19/09713-6)

DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; DODONOV, PAVEL; OSHIMA, JULIA EMI F.; MARTELLO, FELIPE; DE JESUS, ANDRELISA SANTOS; FERREIRA, MANUEL EDUARDO; SILVA-NETO, CARLOS M.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA. Landscape ecology in the Anthropocene: an overview for integrating agroecosystems and biodiversity conservation. PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 19, n. 1, p. 21-32, JAN-MAR 2021. (14/23132-2, 20/01779-5, 19/09713-6, 13/50421-2)

COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA; DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; ROSA, FERNANDA FRAGA; AMARAL, TATIANA S.; CHAVES, LAZARO JOSE; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR. Multi-Scale Landscape Influences on Genetic Diversity and Adaptive Traits in a Neotropical Savanna Tree. FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, v. 11, MAR 25 2020. (19/09713-6, 13/50421-2)

DE SOUSA, FERNANDA GONSALVES; DOS SANTOS, JULIANA SILVEIRA; MARTELLO, FELIPE; DINIZ, MILENA FIUZA; BERGAMINI, LEONARDO LIMA; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA; SILVA, DANIEL PAIVA. Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado. Apidologie, v. 53, n. 2, p. 16-pg., 2022-05-01. (19/09713-6, 13/50421-2, 20/01779-5, 21/10195-0)