%0 Journal Article
%T Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation? Cambios del paisaje en Serra do Japi:  protecci車n legal o expectativa cient赤fica?
%A Elisa Hardt
%A Rozely Ferreira dos Santos
%A Erico F Lopes Pereira-Silva
%J Bosque (Valdivia)
%D 2012
%I Universidad Austral de Chile
%X The creation of new legally protected areas brings many conflicts that distance the real landscape from the expected according to environmental law or conservation researchers. In this study, we mapped and compared the changes in Serra da Japi (S o Paulo State, Brazil) throughout 40 years with scenarios of legal protection and scientific expectation on forest conservation, to evaluate the distance between them. This may allow us to infer the direction of historical changes and assist in the debate among decision makers. The results showed that most legal requirements on forest protection in the current landscape have been met. The 1960s was the period when the forest cover was closest to the desirable conservation stage. Although the Serra do Japi has maintained large areas of forests during the entire study period, human interference increased with the expansion of reforestation and urban areas, and access roads were identified as a primary potential driving forces of change. In addition, habitat loss was observed in the landscape, which can represent the first phase of a sequence of modifications detrimental to the environmental conservation of this protected area, including decision changes to land use. In conclusion, the changes evolved toward conservation expectations, but not toward the forest configuration of scientific expectation. La creaci車n de nuevas 芍reas legalmente protegidas trae muchos conflictos que alejan el paisaje real del que se espera por la legislaci車n ambiental o por los investigadores en conservaci車n. En este estudio se cartografiaron y compararon los cambios ocurridos en Serra do Japi (Estado de S o Paulo, Brasil) a lo largo de 40 a os con escenarios de protecci車n legal y de expectativa cient赤fica sobre la conservaci車n de bosques, buscando evaluar la distancia entre ellos. Este estudio nos permite inferir acerca de la direcci車n de cambios hist車ricos y contribuye al debate entre tomadores de decisi車n. Los resultados mostraron que la mayor赤a de las exigencias legales de protecci車n forestal fueron cumplidas en el paisaje. La d谷cada de 1960 fue el periodo con cobertura forestal m芍s pr車xima a la deseada para la conservaci車n. Aunque Serra do Japi ha mantenido grandes 芍reas de bosques en todo el periodo estudiado, la influencia humana se increment車 con la expansi車n de plantaciones forestales, de 芍reas urbanas y principalmente de las carreteras de acceso, identificadas como potenciales fuerzas conductoras de cambio. Adem芍s, se observ車 p谷rdida de h芍bitat en el paisaje que puede representar una primera fase de una secuencia de cambios per
%K ecolog赤a de paisaje
%K legislaci車n ambiental
%K escenario
%K CUCS
%K bosque atl芍ntico
%K landscape ecology
%K environmental law
%K scenario
%K LUCC
%K Atlantic Forest
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