Biodiversity Management and Research in Multifunctional Landscapes

Author(s)

Verdade, Luciano M. ; Bianchi, Rita C. ; Galetti, Pedro M. ; Pivello, Vania R. ; Silva, Wesley R. ; Uezu, Alexandre

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Biota Neotropica; v. 22, p. 7-pg., 2022-01-01.

Abstract

Despite their negative environmental impacts, human-modified environments such as agricultural and urban landscapes can have a relevant role on biodiversity conservation as complements of protected areas. Such anthropized landscapes may have endangered, valuable, and nuisance species, although most of them do not fit in any of these categories. Therefore, in such environments we must deal with the same decision-making process concerning the same possible interventions proposed by Caughley (1994) to wildlife management, which are related to biological conservation, sustainable use, control/coexistence, and monitoring. Such decision-making process should be based on good science and good governance. On such context, the first step should be to implement multifunctional landscapes, which keep their primary mission of human use, but incorporate a second but fundamental mission of biological conservation. In this study we present a summary of the research carried out at the Biota Program of Funda????o de Amparo ?? Pesquisa do Estado de S??o Paulo (FAPESP) in this field since the late 1990???s and propose priorities for biodiversity research and governance in multifunctional landscapes for the near future. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/18526-9 - The importance of cerrado's remnants to the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in the Northeast of São Paulo State
• Grantee: Rita de Cassia Bianchi
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 17/01304-4 - Widllife in agricultural landscapes: patterns and processes
• Grantee: Luciano Martins Verdade
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 19/19429-3 - Resilience of multifunctional landscape in the face of climate change
• Grantee: Alexandre Uezu
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 16/19106-1 - Mammal occurrence and biological invasion in Cerrado remnants of agricultural landscapes
• Grantee: Adriano Garcia Chiarello
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 13/19377-7 - The effectiveness of the larger atlantic rainforest corridor in the connectivity maintenance of large bodied mammal populations, such as the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• Grantee: Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 18/07886-8 - Free ranging dogs and cats in protected areas: factors that favor invasion
• Grantee: Rita de Cassia Bianchi
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• FAPESP's process: 10/52315-7 - Top predators of food chain
• Grantee: Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 09/16906-3 - Demography, biology, ecology and conservation of large carnivores in the Ecological Park of Jataí, São Paulo, based on non-invasive DNA analysis
• Grantee: Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 99/05123-4 - Biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes at the Atlantic Plateau of São Paulo (Brazil)
• Grantee: Jean Paul Walter Metzger
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 17/23548-2 - Evaluation, recovering and conservation of endangered animal species from the Pernambuco Centre of Endemism
• Grantee: Luís Fábio Silveira
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants