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Biofuels and biodiversity: Challenges
and opportunities
Luciano M. VerdadeAssociate Professor
USP / CENA / Isotopic Ecology LabMember of the Steering Committee of the Biota Program FAPESP
Bioenergy & Sustainability: A SCOPE series volume
Launching the report of a global assessment of bioenergy sustainability
São Paulo City
April 14, 2015
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Impacts on biodiversity
Biofuels expansions
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Agricultural impacts
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Impacts on biodiversity
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dLUC/iLUC
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Habitat loss
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Direct biodiversity loss(r, N, αβ-diversity)
Impacts on biodiversity
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Intensification
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Context specific(Positive & Negative)
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From pastures to sugarcane
- Original biome: Atlantic Forest
- ↓ Birds; ↑ Rodents;
- ↑ Agrochemicals → ↓↓ Birds;
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Mesopredators;
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Diseases (e.g., Hantavirus,
Leptospirosis, Spotted fever etc);
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Agrochemicals.
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From pastures to eucalyptus
- Original biome: Cerrado
- ↓ Birds; ↑ Rodents; ↑ Amphibians; ↑ Reptiles
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Mesopredators;
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Diseases (e.g., Hantavirus,
Leptospirosis, Spotted fever etc);
- ↑ Rodents → ↑ Agrochemicals;
- ↑ Agrochemicals → ↓↓ Birds;
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Sugarcane management: Pre-harvest fire vs
wild rodents vs Hantavirus
Rodents abundance Hantavirus prevalence
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Opportunities...
• Agricultural landscape matrices are habitats!
• Wildlife friendly management techniques
• Widlife management in agricultural landscapes
• Multifunctional agricultural landscapes
• Public policy & Certification: Monitoring
• Conceptual basis, innovation & governance
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