restauraRapp – An R package to subsidize forest restoration planning in Riparian Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs)

Araújo, Júlio Cesar Lima de; Martensen, Alexandre Camargo

doi:10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2024-1666

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Article • Biota Neotrop. 25 (1) • 2025 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2024-1666 linkcopy

restauraRapp – An R package to subsidize forest restoration planning in Riparian Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs)

restauraRapp – Um pacote R para subsidiar o planejamento da restauração florestal em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APPs) Ripárias

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Abstract

The Law No. 12,651/2012 brought changes to the widths of riparian Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) to be restored, which now also depend on the size of the rural property in fiscal modules, which in turn, varies depending on the municipality. Because of this, defining the environmental liabilities of these PPAs is complex, requiring geoprocessing procedures and information that are not always readily available. To automate the identification of these areas to be restored, the restauraRapp package was created, which presents a set of functions for automating four steps of the procedure: I) Data acquisition; II) Classification of property sizes; III) Processing information on land use and cover data in riparian areas; IV) Cartographical and tabular output generation. This package can support landscape planning focused on the restoration of riparian PPAs, potentially assisting NGOs, municipality governments and landowners.

Keywords
Environmental policy; Brazilian Forest Act; Landscape management; GIS

Until 1965	September 15th 1965	July 7th 1986	July 18th 1989	May 26th 2000
Brazilian Forest Act 1934	Brazilian Forest Act 1965	Law no. 7,511	Law no. 7,803	MP no. 1956-50/00
No PPAs, but with some protection, if the area was declared as “protected forest”	Obligation to preserve native forests along watercourses, varying by its size.	Same as 4.771/65, but the native forests along watercourses enlarged, varying between 30 meters to 150 meters.	Riparian areas along intermittent water springs become PPA	PPAs do not need to be covered by native vegetation to be a preservation area.

Data	Type	Source	Description
Land use/cover	Shapefile	FBDS*	Spatial dataset with land use and cover information based on RapidEye imagery with 5 meters resolution at spatial resolution 1:10000
Hydrography	Shapefile	FBDS*	Hydrography spatial dataset that includes rivers and other water bodies types (spring and lakes) at spatial resolution 1:10000
CAR	Shapefile	SICAR**	Spatial dataset with properties by state

	Property class sizes in Fiscal Modules (FM)
Hydrography	< 1	Between 1 e 2	Between 2 e 4	> 4
Rivers	5 m	8 m	15 m	20 m
Around the springs	15 m	15 m	15 m	15 M
Around the natural lakes	5 M	8 M	15 M	30 M

Function	Parameters	Descriptions
resapp_fbds_dados	State (text), municipality (text),	Automatically downloads land use and cover and hydrography datasets, creates a directory with the name FBDS_MUNICIPALITY in your home folder and saves the datasets there
resapp_car_class	The CAR spatial dataset (.shp) downloaded from the SICAR website	Splits property by class sizes, returning a spatial dataset (*.shp) to each class size
resapp_car_info	The CAR spatial dataset (*.shp) downloaded from the SICAR website, municipality name (text), option between table of spatial dataset (text)	Returns the total area and the number of properties by class size for the focal municipality. Outputs can be a table or a spatial dataset (*.shp)
resapp_app_buffer	The hydrography spatial datasets (.shp) automatically downloaded from the FBDS, the CAR spatial dataset (.shp) downloaded from the SICAR website (.shp), the land use and land cover spatial dataset downloaded from FBDS website (.shp), scenario option (text)	Unifies hydrography spatial datasets and creates the buffer with the widths to be restored by class size, returning the intersection of these buffers with the land uses as a spatial dataset (*.shp) for the chosen scenario (see below for scenario details).
resapp_app_info	The scenarios generated by “resapp_app_buffer” (.shp), CAR spatial dataset (.shp) downloaded from the SICAR website (*.shp), option between table and spatial dataset (text)	Uses the outputs from the “resapp_app_buffer” function, unites the different land use/cover in the classes “restore” and “preserved”, returning the spatial dataset (*.shp) or data tables with the areas of these classes (restores and preserved) by property class sizes, for all properties or by property
resapp_app_kml	Scenario 1 (only properties with CAR) from the function “resapp_app_buffer” (*.shp), municipality (text), state (text)	Two options of spatial dataset (*.kml) files i. the entire PPA and ii. the areas to be restored, both by property class size

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