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- Title
Mudanças no Código Florestal e seu impacto na ecologia e diversidade dos mamíferos no Brasil.
- Authors
Galetti, Mauro; Pardini, Renata; Barbanti Duarte, José Maurício; Ferreira da Silva, Vera Maria; Rossi, Alexandre; Augusto Peres, Carlos
- Abstract
Forest ecosystems within Brazil host one of the highest levels of mammalian diversity on Earth, much of which within legally required forest set-asides in private landholdings. The Legal Reserves (RLs) and Permanent Protected Areas (APPs) of the Brazilian Forest Code provide an important strategy to maintain this diversity. Yet a proposed amendment to Brazil's 1965 forestry code would reduce protection of Brazil's forests, including the Amazon and the Atlantic forest, and bring irreversible detrimental effects to mammal diversity. Mammals are key components of forest ecosystem, providing important environmental services as pollinators, seed dispersers and ecosystem engineers. The local extinction of some species will negatively affect forest ecosystem service provisioning throughout the country. Another important effect of forest conversion within private properties, should the proposed changes happen, will be the emergence of new diseases, bringing serious public health problems in Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; FOREST management; FOREST restoration; ANIMAL variation; ANIMAL diversity conservation; POLLINATORS; FOREST conversion; MAMMALS
- Publication
Biota Neotropica, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 4, p47
- ISSN
1678-6424
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S1676-06032010000400006