eprintid: 13955 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/39/55 datestamp: 2016-11-16 15:47:21 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:38 status_changed: 2016-11-16 15:47:21 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Strassburg, B.B. creators_name: Barros, F.S. creators_name: Crouzeilles, R. creators_name: Silva Iribarrem, A. creators_name: dos Santos, J.S. creators_name: Silva, D. creators_name: Sansevero, J.B. creators_name: Alves-Pinto, H. creators_name: Feltrain-Barbieri, R. creators_name: Latawiec, A.E. creators_id: 2078 title: The role of natural regeneration to ecosystem services provision and habitat availability: a case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest ispublished: pub divisions: prog_esm keywords: climate change mitigation; connectivity; cost-effectiveness; ecological restoration;environment services evaluation, and incentives. abstract: Natural regeneration provides multiple benefits to nature and human societies, and can play a major role in global and national restoration targets. However, these benefits are context specific and impacted by both biophysical and socioeconomic heterogeneity across landscapes. Here we investigate the benefits of natural regeneration for climate change mitigation, sediment retention and biodiversity conservation in a spatially explicit way at very high resolution for a region within the global biodiversity hotspot of the Atlantic Forest. We classified current land-use cover in the region and simulated a natural regeneration scenario in abandoned pasturelands, areas where potential conflicts with agricultural production would be minimized and where some early stage regeneration is already occurring. We then modelled changes in biophysical functions for climate change mitigation and sediment retention, and performed an economic valuation of both ecosystem services. We also modelled how land-use changes affect habitat availability for species. We found that natural regeneration can provide significant ecological and social benefits. Economic values of climate change mitigation and sediment retention alone could completely compensate for the opportunity costs of agricultural production over 20 years. Habitat availability is improved for three species with different dispersal abilities, although by different magnitudes. Improving the understanding of how costs and benefits of natural regeneration are distributed can be useful to design incentive structures that bring farmers’ decision making more in line with societal benefits. This alignment is crucial for natural regeneration to fulfil its potential as a large-scale solution for pressing local and global environmental challenges. date: 2016-11-21 date_type: published publisher: Wiley id_number: 10.1111/btp.12393 creators_browse_id: 283 full_text_status: public publication: Biotropica volume: 48 number: 6 pagerange: 890-899 refereed: TRUE issn: 1744-7429 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Strassburg, B.B., Barros, F.S., Crouzeilles, R., Silva Iribarrem, A. , dos Santos, J.S., Silva, D., Sansevero, J.B., Alves-Pinto, H., et al. (2016). The role of natural regeneration to ecosystem services provision and habitat availability: a case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biotropica 48 (6) 890-899. 10.1111/btp.12393 . document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13955/1/the%20role%20of%20natural%20regeneration%20to%20ecosystem%20services%20provision%20and%20habitat%20availability.pdf