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Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection?
Protected Areas (PAs) are essential to maintaining biodiversity, while effective management plans (MPs) are essential for the management of these areas. Thus, MPs must have relevant data analyses and diagnoses to evaluate ecological conditions of PAs. We evaluated the environmental diagnoses of 126...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7732074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33306707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242687 |
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author | D´Amico, Ana Rafaela Cortes Figueira, José Eugênio Cândido-Jr., José Flávio Drumond, Maria Auxiliadora |
author_facet | D´Amico, Ana Rafaela Cortes Figueira, José Eugênio Cândido-Jr., José Flávio Drumond, Maria Auxiliadora |
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description | Protected Areas (PAs) are essential to maintaining biodiversity, while effective management plans (MPs) are essential for the management of these areas. Thus, MPs must have relevant data analyses and diagnoses to evaluate ecological conditions of PAs. We evaluated the environmental diagnoses of 126 Brazilian federal PAs, the methods used to collect data and defined the diagnostic level of PMs according to the type and number of analyzes performed for each PA category. We found a low level of diagnosis in MPs. Primary field data or research programs resulted in environmental diagnostics of higher levels. Participatory workshops and secondary data, most used in Extractive Reserves, were related to low levels of diagnoses. The most frequent analysis was the identification of threats (97% of MPs), while the least frequent were the definition of conservation targets and future scenarios for management (1.6% of MPs). Our results show that the diagnoses of the MPs need to be more analytical to generate useful information for decision-making. MPs should prioritize data analysis and specific management studies, focused on the use of natural resources, the status of conservation targets, future scenarios, and key information to planning. |
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spelling | pubmed-77320742020-12-17 Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? D´Amico, Ana Rafaela Cortes Figueira, José Eugênio Cândido-Jr., José Flávio Drumond, Maria Auxiliadora PLoS One Research Article Protected Areas (PAs) are essential to maintaining biodiversity, while effective management plans (MPs) are essential for the management of these areas. Thus, MPs must have relevant data analyses and diagnoses to evaluate ecological conditions of PAs. We evaluated the environmental diagnoses of 126 Brazilian federal PAs, the methods used to collect data and defined the diagnostic level of PMs according to the type and number of analyzes performed for each PA category. We found a low level of diagnosis in MPs. Primary field data or research programs resulted in environmental diagnostics of higher levels. Participatory workshops and secondary data, most used in Extractive Reserves, were related to low levels of diagnoses. The most frequent analysis was the identification of threats (97% of MPs), while the least frequent were the definition of conservation targets and future scenarios for management (1.6% of MPs). Our results show that the diagnoses of the MPs need to be more analytical to generate useful information for decision-making. MPs should prioritize data analysis and specific management studies, focused on the use of natural resources, the status of conservation targets, future scenarios, and key information to planning. Public Library of Science 2020-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7732074/ /pubmed/33306707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242687 Text en © 2020 D´Amico et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article D´Amico, Ana Rafaela Cortes Figueira, José Eugênio Cândido-Jr., José Flávio Drumond, Maria Auxiliadora Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title | Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title_full | Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title_fullStr | Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title_short | Environmental diagnoses and effective planning of Protected Areas in Brazil: Is there any connection? |
title_sort | environmental diagnoses and effective planning of protected areas in brazil: is there any connection? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7732074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33306707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242687 |
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