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Replication data for: Protected areas within multifunctional landscapes: Squeezing out intermediate land use intensities in the tropics?

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Title Replication data for: Protected areas within multifunctional landscapes: Squeezing out intermediate land use intensities in the tropics?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/25199
 
Creator Dewi, Sonya
van Noordwijk, Meine
Ekadinata, Andree
Pfund, Jean-Laurent
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description A protected area (PA) tends to be designated in an area where tracts of primary forest remain, often with poor accessibility due to terrain features an
d yet with some exposure to threats. Typically, a PA is at the start of a forest transition gradient. The establishment of a PA influences the whole gradient. We analyzed the temporal patterns of land-use change inside and outside four PAs, with one located in each of Laos, Indonesia, Madagascar and Cameroon. In Laos, in the Viengkham landscape, the rates of conversion of natural forest increased after the designation of the PA and were higher than the spatial baseline predicted. In the three other landscapes, the policies associated with the implementation of PAs increased the conversion rate immediately outside the boundary of the PAs. In Indonesia, in the Bungo landscape, forms of land-use associated with multifunctional agroforestry activities involving rubber trees land-use became the target for conversion to oil palm and monoculture rubber tree crops when the rules on the protection of the remaining natural forest were tightened. We tested a new metric for the degree of integration of forest in multifunctional landscapes which recognizes the surrounding matrix, both as surrogate habitat and as a corridor for tree species. Two important findings were: (i) a leakage zone of influence of at least 10 km around a PA needs to be included for quantification of the deforestation and degradation changes that may be due to forest protection inside the PA and (ii) agroforest and other mixed tree cover can maintain or increase the degree of integration of forest in the multifunctional landscape for biodiversity maintenance and conservation, while providing a source of livelihood for the local people. Enclosed data is a land cove change analysis result based on time series land cover maps from satellite image interpretation for each location of this study.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
agroforest
biodiversity conservation
climate change mitigation
habitat edge
 
Date 2012
 
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Type Spatial analysis result