TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping land suitability to guide landscape restoration in the amazon
AU - Poccard-Chapuis, René
AU - Plassin, Sophie
AU - Osis, Reinis
AU - Pinillos, Daniel
AU - Pimentel, Gustavo Martinez
AU - Thalês, Marcelo Cordeiro
AU - Laurent, François
AU - De Oliveira Gomes, Mario Rodrigo
AU - Darnet, Laura Angelica Ferreira
AU - De Carvalho Peçanha, Jaqueline
AU - Piketty, Marie Gabrielle
PY - 2021/4/2
Y1 - 2021/4/2
N2 - Beyond reducing deforestation, the control of forest degradation, the promotion of forest restoration, and the improvement of agricultural practices in the Brazilian Amazon are becoming increasingly important for sustainable development. To enable farmers and authorities to organize their landscapes and optimize both agricultural practices and the provision of ecosystem services, mapping land suitability is essential, but it is lacking in the region. In this paper, we present a method for mapping land suitability at a fine scale (30-m pixels), adapted to the needs of farmers and municipalities, to not only optimize agricultural production but also the ecosystem services provided by forests. We used topographic data from the Brazilian municipality of Paragominas to produce four maps, one each of soil texture, slope, floodplains, and hydrography, that we then combined into a single land suitability map. This map has been incorporated into a spatial database, which also contains information on land use, remoteness, and land tenure. We performed spatial analyses to measure the process of land use change, and to define indicators that enable local stakeholders to organize landscape restoration. We highlight an organic link between agricultural intensification and forest restoration, and provide a spatial tool for landscape design, assessment, and monitoring.
AB - Beyond reducing deforestation, the control of forest degradation, the promotion of forest restoration, and the improvement of agricultural practices in the Brazilian Amazon are becoming increasingly important for sustainable development. To enable farmers and authorities to organize their landscapes and optimize both agricultural practices and the provision of ecosystem services, mapping land suitability is essential, but it is lacking in the region. In this paper, we present a method for mapping land suitability at a fine scale (30-m pixels), adapted to the needs of farmers and municipalities, to not only optimize agricultural production but also the ecosystem services provided by forests. We used topographic data from the Brazilian municipality of Paragominas to produce four maps, one each of soil texture, slope, floodplains, and hydrography, that we then combined into a single land suitability map. This map has been incorporated into a spatial database, which also contains information on land use, remoteness, and land tenure. We performed spatial analyses to measure the process of land use change, and to define indicators that enable local stakeholders to organize landscape restoration. We highlight an organic link between agricultural intensification and forest restoration, and provide a spatial tool for landscape design, assessment, and monitoring.
KW - Amazon region
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Land suitability
KW - Land use policy
KW - Landscape design
KW - Landscape restoration
U2 - 10.3390/land10040368
DO - 10.3390/land10040368
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104148809
SN - 2073-445X
VL - 10
JO - Land
JF - Land
IS - 4
M1 - 368
ER -
