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Effectiveness of China's National Forest Protection Program and nature reserves

Ren, Guopeng ; Young, Stephen S ; Wang, Lin ; Wang, Wei ; Long, Yongcheng ; Wu, Ruidong ; Li, Junsheng ; Zhu, Jianguo ; Yu, Douglas W

Conservation biology, 2015-10, Vol.29 (5), p.1368-1377 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Blackwell Scientific Publications

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    Effectiveness of China's National Forest Protection Program and nature reserves
  • Autor: Ren, Guopeng ; Young, Stephen S ; Wang, Lin ; Wang, Wei ; Long, Yongcheng ; Wu, Ruidong ; Li, Junsheng ; Zhu, Jianguo ; Yu, Douglas W
  • Assuntos: avoided deforestation ; Biodiversity ; biodiversity conservation ; canopy ; China ; conservación de la biodiversidad ; conservation areas ; Conservation biology ; Conservation of Natural Resources - methods ; Contributed Papers ; correspondencia de covarianza ; covariate matching ; data collection ; deforestación evitada ; deforestation ; Forest management ; Forestry ; Forests ; gobierno ; governance ; issues and policy ; Landsat ; MOD13Q1 ; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer ; national parks ; Parks, Recreational ; parques nacionales ; politics ; protected areas ; shrubs ; woodlands ; áreas protegidas
  • É parte de: Conservation biology, 2015-10, Vol.29 (5), p.1368-1377
  • Notas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12561
    China's Ministry of Environmental Protection - No. 20120928
    Yunnan Province - No. 20080A001
    National Natural Science Foundation - No. 31272327, 31170498
    ark:/67375/WNG-ZSTHNP3P-K
    istex:18B7C13EE0C17992A28C7F6561CC9069EB82D92E
    Detailed methods (Appendix S1) and a high resolution version of Fig. (Appendix S2) are available online. The authors are solely responsible for the content and functionality of these materials. Queries (other than the absence of material) should be directed to the corresponding author.
    ArticleID:COBI12561
    Chinese Academy of Sciences - No. 0902281081, KSCX2-YW-Z-1027
    China's Ministry of Science and Technology - No. 2012FY110800
    These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Descrição: There is profound interest in knowing the degree to which China's institutions are capable of protecting its natural forests and biodiversity in the face of economic and political change. China's 2 most important forest‐protection policies are its National Forest Protection Program (NFPP) and its national‐level nature reserves (NNRs). The NFPP was implemented in 2000 in response to deforestation‐caused flooding. We undertook the first national, quantitative assessment of the NFPP and NNRs to examine whether the NFPP achieved its deforestation‐reduction target and whether the NNRs deter deforestation altogether. We used MODIS data to estimate forest cover and loss across mainland China (2000–2010). We also assembled the first‐ever polygon dataset for China's forested NNRs (n = 237, 74,030 km² in 2000) and used both conventional and covariate‐matching approaches to compare deforestation rates inside and outside NNRs (2000–2010). In 2000, 1.765 million km² or 18.7% of mainland China was forested (12.3% with canopy cover of ≥70%)) or woodland (6.4% with canopy cover <70% and tree plus shrub cover ≥40%). By 2010, 480,203 km² of forest and woodland had been lost, an annual deforestation rate of 2.7%. Forest‐only loss was 127,473 km² (1.05% annually). In the NFPP provinces, the forest‐only loss rate was 0.62%, which was 3.3 times lower than in the non‐NFPP provinces. Moreover, the Landsat data suggest that these loss rates are overestimates due to large MODIS pixel size. Thus, China appears to have achieved, and even exceeded, its target of reducing deforestation to 1.1% annually in the NFPP provinces. About two‐thirds of China's NNRs were effective in protecting forest cover (prevented loss 4073 km² unmatched approach; 3148 km² matched approach), and within‐NNR deforestation rates were higher in provinces with higher overall deforestation. Our results indicate that China's existing institutions can protect domestic forest cover.
  • Editor: United States: Blackwell Scientific Publications
  • Idioma: Inglês
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