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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dc.creatorDyson, Karen
dc.creatorNicolau, Andréa P.
dc.creatorTenneson, Karis
dc.creatorFrancesconi, Wendy
dc.creatorDaniels, Amy
dc.creatorAndrich, Giulia
dc.creatorCaldas, Bernardo
dc.creatorCastaño, Silvia
dc.creatorde Campos, Nathanael
dc.creatorDilger, John
dc.creatorGuidotti, Vinicius
dc.creatorJaques, Iara
dc.creatorMcCullough, Ian M.
dc.creatorMcDevitt, Allan D.
dc.creatorMolina, Luis
dc.creatorNekorchuk, Dawn M.
dc.creatorNewberry, Tom
dc.creatorLima Pereira, Cristiano
dc.creatorPerez, Jorge
dc.creatorRichards-Dimitrie, Teal
dc.creatorRivera, Ovidio
dc.creatorRodriguez, Beatriz
dc.creatorSales, Naiara
dc.creatorTello, Jhon
dc.creatorWespestad, Crystal
dc.creatorZutta, Brian
dc.creatorSaah, David
dc.date2024-02-14
dc.date2024-03-27T14:08:03Z
dc.date2024-03-27T14:08:03Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:26:27Z
dc.descriptionMonitoring 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.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140634
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/59466
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDyson, 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: 1932-6203
dc.subjectevaluation
dc.subjectclimate change mitigation
dc.subjectbiodiversity conservation
dc.subjectremote sensing
dc.subjectdna barcoding
dc.titleCoupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon
dc.typeJournal Article

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