Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSpatial Informatics Groupen
cg.contributor.affiliationUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationInstituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícolaen
cg.contributor.affiliationAtlantic Technological Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Salforden
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of San Franciscoen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeAgroecology
cg.coverage.countryBrazil
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BR
cg.coverage.regionAmericas
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.coverage.regionLatin America and the Caribbean
cg.creator.identifierWendy Francesconi: 0000-0001-6314-6400
cg.creator.identifierSilvia-Elena Castaño: 0000-0002-1334-8546
cg.creator.identifierLUIS MOLINA CARPIO: 0000-0001-8416-0906
cg.creator.identifierJorge Andres Perez Escobar: 0000-0002-6485-2611
cg.creator.identifierOvidio Rivera: 0000-0003-4297-8229
cg.creator.identifierJhon Jairo Tello Dagua: 0000-0001-7020-5982
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8153264en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289437en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1932-6203en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalPLOS ONEen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatBIODIVERSITYen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatCONSERVATION AND USEen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatLAND USEen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatMONITORING AND REPORTINGen
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen
cg.volume19en
dc.contributor.authorDyson, Karenen
dc.contributor.authorNicolau, Andréa P.en
dc.contributor.authorTenneson, Karisen
dc.contributor.authorFrancesconi, Wendyen
dc.contributor.authorDaniels, Amyen
dc.contributor.authorAndrich, Giuliaen
dc.contributor.authorCaldas, Bernardoen
dc.contributor.authorCastaño, Silviaen
dc.contributor.authorde Campos, Nathanaelen
dc.contributor.authorDilger, Johnen
dc.contributor.authorGuidotti, Viniciusen
dc.contributor.authorJaques, Iaraen
dc.contributor.authorMcCullough, Ian M.en
dc.contributor.authorMcDevitt, Allan D.en
dc.contributor.authorMolina, Luisen
dc.contributor.authorNekorchuk, Dawn M.en
dc.contributor.authorNewberry, Tomen
dc.contributor.authorLima Pereira, Cristianoen
dc.contributor.authorPerez, Jorgeen
dc.contributor.authorRichards-Dimitrie, Tealen
dc.contributor.authorRivera, Ovidioen
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Beatrizen
dc.contributor.authorSales, Naiaraen
dc.contributor.authorTello, Jhonen
dc.contributor.authorWespestad, Crystalen
dc.contributor.authorZutta, Brianen
dc.contributor.authorSaah, Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T14:08:03Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-27T14:08:03Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140634
dc.titleCoupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazonen
dcterms.abstractMonitoring is essential to ensure that environmental goals are being achieved, including those of sustainable agriculture. Growing interest in environmental monitoring provides an opportunity to improve monitoring practices. Approaches that directly monitor land cover change and biodiversity annually by coupling the wall-to-wall coverage from remote sensing and the site-specific community composition from environmental DNA (eDNA) can provide timely, relevant results for parties interested in the success of sustainable agricultural practices. To ensure that the measured impacts are due to the environmental projects and not exogenous factors, sites where projects have been implemented should be benchmarked against counterfactuals (no project) and control (natural habitat) sites. Results can then be used to calculate diverse sets of indicators customized to monitor different projects. Here, we report on our experience developing and applying one such approach to assess the impact of shaded cocoa projects implemented by the Instituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícola (IMAFLORA) near São Félix do Xingu, in Pará, Brazil. We used the Continuous Degradation Detection (CODED) and LandTrendr algorithms to create a remote sensing-based assessment of forest disturbance and regeneration, estimate carbon sequestration, and changes in essential habitats. We coupled these remote sensing methods with eDNA analyses using arthropod-targeted primers by collecting soil samples from intervention and counterfactual pasture field sites and a control secondary forest. We used a custom set of indicators from the pilot application of a coupled monitoring framework called TerraBio. Our results suggest that, due to IMAFLORA’s shaded cocoa projects, over 400 acres were restored in the intervention area and the community composition of arthropods in shaded cocoa is closer to second-growth forests than that of pastures. In reviewing the coupled approach, we found multiple aspects worked well, and we conclude by presenting multiple lessons learned.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2024-02-14
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDyson, K.; Nicolau, A.P.; Tenneson, K.; Francesconi, W.; Daniels, A.; Andrich, G.; Caldas, B.; Castaño, S.; de Campos, N.; Dilger, J.; Guidotti, V.; Jaques, I.; McCullough, I.M.; McDevitt, A.D.; Molina, L.; Nekorchuk, D.M.; Newberry, T.; Lima Pereira, C.; Perez, J.; Richards-Dimitrie, T.; Rivera, O.; Rodriguez, B.; Sales, N.; Tello, J.; Wespestad, C.; Zutta, B.; Saah, D. (2024) Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon. PLoS ONE 19(2): e0289437. ISSN: 1932-6203en
dcterms.extente0289437en
dcterms.issued2024-02-14
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC0-1.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.subjectevaluationen
dcterms.subjectclimate change mitigationen
dcterms.subjectbiodiversity conservationen
dcterms.subjectremote sensingen
dcterms.subjectdna barcodingen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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