Land-Use Allocation Protects the Peruvian Amazon

@article{citeulike:1755892, abstract = {Disturbance and deforestation have profound ecological and socioeconomic effects on tropical forests, but their diffuse patterns are difficult to detect and quantify at regional scales. We expanded the Carnegie forest damage detection system to show that, between 1999 and 2005, disturbance and deforestation rates throughout the Peruvian Amazon averaged 632 square kilometers per year and 645 square kilometers per year, respectively. However, only 1 to 2\% occurred within natural protected areas, indigenous territories contained only 11\% of the forest disturbances and 9\% of the deforestation, and recent forest concessions effectively protected against clear-cutting. Although the region shows recent increases in disturbance and deforestation rates and leakage into forests surrounding concession areas, land-use policy and remoteness are serving to protect the Peruvian Amazon. 10.1126/science.1146324}, author = {Oliveira, Paulo J. and Asner, Gregory P. and Knapp, David E. and Almeyda, Angelica and Galvan-Gildemeister, Ricardo and Keene, Sam and Raybin, Rebecca F. and Smith, Richard C. }, citeulike-article-id = {1755892}, doi = {10.1126/science.1146324}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {amazon, concessions, deforestation, forest\_reserves, leakage, pa\_effectiveness, pas, peru}, month = {August}, number = {5842}, pages = {1233--1236}, posted-at = {2007-10-11 16:24:05}, priority = {0}, title = {Land-Use Allocation Protects the Peruvian Amazon}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1146324}, volume = {317}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1755892 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1755892 TI - Land-Use Allocation Protects the Peruvian Amazon JF - Science VL - 317 IS - 5842 SP - 1233 EP - 1236 N2 - Disturbance and deforestation have profound ecological and socioeconomic effects on tropical forests, but their diffuse patterns are difficult to detect and quantify at regional scales. We expanded the Carnegie forest damage detection system to show that, between 1999 and 2005, disturbance and deforestation rates throughout the Peruvian Amazon averaged 632 square kilometers per year and 645 square kilometers per year, respectively. However, only 1 to 2% occurred within natural protected areas, indigenous territories contained only 11% of the forest disturbances and 9% of the deforestation, and recent forest concessions effectively protected against clear-cutting. Although the region shows recent increases in disturbance and deforestation rates and leakage into forests surrounding concession areas, land-use policy and remoteness are serving to protect the Peruvian Amazon. 10.1126/science.1146324 KW - amazon KW - concessions KW - deforestation KW - forest_reserves KW - leakage KW - pa_effectiveness KW - pas KW - peru AU - Oliveira, Paulo AU - Asner, Gregory AU - Knapp, David AU - Almeyda, Angelica AU - Galvan-Gildemeister, Ricardo AU - Keene, Sam AU - Raybin, Rebecca AU - Smith, Richard PY - 2007/08/31/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1146324 ER -