PRIORITY AREAS FOR RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN CAATINGA BIOME
Zonation; potential occurrence; ES demand ;priorization;biodiversity;
Selecting areas for large-scale restoration can generate a number of land-use conflicts in seasonally dry tropical forests. In Brazil, the selection of areas for restoration is an opportunity to identify multiple targets in drylands and populated regions, where it is necessary increase biodiversity to provide services relevant to local communities. In this work, the objective is defined Caatinga priority areas for restoration of two ecosystem provision services (wood supply and species of food / medicinal use) and a regulation service (pollination). We developed two scenarios for each use: (i) control scenario, only the suitability maps of species and (ii) scenario of ecosystem services (ES) demand, which included, besides the suitability maps and locations demand, (iii) threatened species scenario, whose species received different weights according to the threat level on the IUCN Red List.. We run analyzes on Software Zonation, the tool responsible for area prioritizing the areas that have greatest potential to increase biodiversity and ecosystem services. We found an increase in the representation percentage in all ES demand scenarios. The pollination service was the one with the greatest increase in representation (81.5%), followed by food/medicinal use (5.1%) and wood supply (2.5%). In scenarios of threatened species, we observed the same downward trend, as pollination presented the highest percentage (6.7) followed by food / medicinal species (0.4) and wood supply (-0.06).The results indicated the inclusion of areas with ES demand influenced, to a lesser extent for threatened species, the prioritization of restoration targets and modified the location of these targets against control scenario. When we included SE demand, we gained more than when considering only species occurrence, thus selecting important restoration areas to increase biodiversity and ecosystem services, but using species that will be useful to people living near these areas.