Jari Phase I

The biodiversity value of Amazonian primary, secondary and plantation forests



Project team

Primary contacts

Jos Barlow
Toby Gardner
Carlos Peres

Additional Members

Ivanei Araujo
Teresa-Cristina Avila-Pires
Alexandre Bonaldo
Joana Costa
Maria da Silva
Catarina da Silva Motta
Maria Esposito
Leandro Ferreira
Joseph Hawes
Malva Hernandez
Rafael Leite
Nancy Lo-Man-Hung
Jay Malcolm
Marlucia Martins
Luis Mestre
Ronildon Miranda-Santos
Ana-Lucia Nunes-Getjahr
William Overal
Luke Parry
Sandra Peters
Marco-Antonio Ribeiro-Junior

Project summary

Secondary forests and exotic tree plantations are rapidly expanding across tropical landscapes, and have the potential to partly offset the biodiversity loss induced from deforestation. Despite their growing importance, we currently have a limited understanding of the value of these habitats for biodiversity conservation because of a series of methodological problems in many of the existing studies, including a lack of replication, edge-effects, and the lack of an undisturbed baseline for comparison (Gardner et al. 2007-a). This project aims to address the value of these habitats for 15 different of focal taxa (including all terrestrial vertebrates, woody trees and lianas and eight groups of invertebates), using a robust replicated design, with survey plots approximately two to three orders of magnitude larger than most previous studies of land-use change in the tropics. Initial results are available for the birds (Barlow et al 2007-a), butterflies (Barlow et al. 2007-b) and herpetofauna (Gardner et al. 2007-b).

Publications

Gardner, T.A., M. I. M. Hernandez, J. Barlow and C.A. Peres. in press Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Gardner, T.A., Barlow, J., Araujo, I.S., Avila-Pires, T.C.S., Bonaldo, A.B., Costa, J.E., Esposito, M.C., Ferreira, L.V., Hawes, J., Hernandez, M.I.M., Hoogmoed, M., Leite, R.N., Lo-Man-Hung, N.F., Malcolm, J.R., Martins, M.B., Mestre, L.A.M., Miranda-Santos, R., Nunes-Gutjahr, A.L., Overal, W.L., Parry, L.T.W., Peters, S.L., Ribeiro-Junior, M.A., da Silva, M.N.F., da Silva Motta, C. & Peres, C. 2008 The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests. Ecology letters. 11: 139–150

Barlow, J., T. A. Gardner, I. S. Araujo, A. B. Bonaldo, J. E. Costa, M. C. Esposito, L. V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M. I. M. Hernandez, R. N. Leite, N. F. Lo-Man-Hung, J. R. Malcolm, M. B. Martins, L. A. M. Mestre, A. L. Nunes-Gutjahr, W. L. Overal, L. Parry, S. L. Peters, M. A. Ribeiro-Junior, C. da Silva Motta, M. N. F. da Silva, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary and plantation forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 104 (47): 18555-18560
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Parry, L., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Large vertebrate assemblages of primary and secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 23:653-662
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Barlow, J., I. S. Araujo, W. L. Overal, F. Mendes, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres 2007. Diversity and composition of fruit-feeding butterflies in tropical plantation forests. Biodiversity and Conservation.. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9240-0
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Barlow, J., T. A. Gardner, L. V. Ferreira, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Litter fall and decomposition in primary, secondary and plantation forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management. 247: 91–97
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Barlow, J., W. L. Overal, I. S. Araujo, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres. 2007. The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for fruit-feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Applied Ecology. 44:1001-1012
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Gardner, T.A., Ribeiro Jr, M.A., Barlow, J., Ávila-Pires, T.A.S., Hoogmoed, M., & Peres, C.A. 2007 The biodiversity value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for a neotropical herpetofauna. Conservation biology. 21:775-787
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Gardner, T. A., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: consequences of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles. Biological Conservation. 138:166-179
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Barlow, J., L. A. M. Mestre, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres. 2007. The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for Amazonian birds. Biological Conservation. 136: 212-231
[Abstract in English and Portuguese]

Gardner, T. A., J. Barlow, L. T. W. Parry, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Predicting the Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest Species in a Data Vacuum. Biotropica 39 25-30.

Collaborating institutions




Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Av. Perimetral 1901, Bairro Terra Firme, Belém - Pará, 66.077-530, Brazil

 

Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
 


Orsa Florestal / Jari Cellulose Vila Munguba, S/N - Monte Dourado, Pará CEP 68240-000, Brazil.



 


Insituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia. Av. André Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, 69.083-000, Manaus – Amazonas, Brazil
 



Laboratório de Ornitologia - CEM - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Av. Beira-mar, s/n. 83.255-000, Pontal do Sul - Paraná, Brazil



Dept. of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 4B8, Canada


 Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B3, Canada



Project Sponsors


 

United Kingdom Government Darwin Initiative
 

 Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
 

Conservation International (USA)
 


 National Geographical Society (USA)
 

Conservation Food and Health Foundation (USA)
 

 Brazilin Ministry of Science and Technology (CNPq, Brazil)
 
Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES, Brazil)