Author, as appears in the article.: Garcia Lucas, Kassio R.; Anton, Assumpcio; Ventura, Mauricio Ursi; Pereira Andrade, Edilene; Ralisch, Ricardo;
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: ANTON VALLEJO, MARIA ASUNCIÓN / PEREIRA ANDRADE, EDILENE
Project code: Grant agreement No. 713679
Keywords: Soybean production Soybean Prioritization Pantanal Pampas Mitigation Life cycle analysis Life cycle Landuse change Land use change Land use Glycine max Geographics Fragility index Forestry Environmental indicator Ecoregions Ecoregion Ecological impact Damage detection Damage Cultivation Crops Crop rotation Crop production Characterization factors Cerrado Caatinga Brazilian biomes Brazil Biodiversity preservation Biodiversity loss Biodiversity Atlantic forest Argentina Amphibia Amazonas [brazil] Action plan
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the use of and suggest possible adjustments to indicators of biodiversity loss for LCA proposed by Chaudhary and Books (2018). For this, we analyzed soybean production in Brazil. Potential damage to biodiversity has been determined for all Brazilian ecoregions: the Amazon; the Atlantic forest; Caatinga; Cerrado; Pampas; and the Pantanal. Two dimensions of assessment were considered - global and regional - in addition to Average-country. An adjustment was proposed for the vulnerability coefficient to the indicators Average-country Brazil: the Regional Species Fragility Index (FI). Two inventories were created using two different functional units: area of production of soybean by ecoregion (year m2); and area corresponding to production of 1 kg of soybean (year m2). Thus, we observed that when the indicators of aggregate values were adopted, the Atlantic Forest was the ecoregion most affected by the crop. Regarding the assessments of the Potential Biodiversity Damage (BD) Global and Regional indicators, the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon were the ecoregions that suffered the highest impacts, mainly on plants, birds and amphibians taxa. Besides, the impacts at the global level were always more expressive than the regional ones. Due to this, we noticed that the results were influenced by the Vulnerability Score (VS). The suitability of the VS for FI is relevant and the adjustment in the equation can be suggested for other regions. Considering the results found here, to prevent regional impacts, technical measures such as extensive farming and crop rotation should be prioritized as impact mitigation actions. However, political measures tend to be more effective at geographic levels when addressing more than one ecoregion, due to the standardization of preservation procedures. Thus, from the results reported here, we conclude that the FI is relevant to diagnose measures at the administrative geographic levels of the ecoregions present in a single country, and the applied indicators reinforce that the Atlantic Forest ecoregion is the most vulnerable due to the replacement of wild forest for cultivated areas, which includes soybean crops.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Sociología Saúde coletiva Química Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Nutrição Medicina veterinaria Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Geografía Geociências General decision sciences Environmental sciences Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics Ecology Decision sciences (miscellaneous) Decision sciences (all) Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Biotecnología Biodiversidade Antropologia / arqueologia Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1470160X
Author's mail: edilene.pereira@urv.cat edilene.pereira@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8910-4911 0000-0001-8910-4911
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Funding program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ecological Indicators. 127 (107809):
APA: Garcia Lucas, Kassio R.; Anton, Assumpcio; Ventura, Mauricio Ursi; Pereira Andrade, Edilene; Ralisch, Ricardo; (2021). Using the available indicators of potential biodiversity damage for Life Cycle Assessment on soybean crop according to Brazilian ecoregions. Ecological Indicators, 127(107809), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107809
Acronym: MFP
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Funding program action: Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Programme
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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