Inventory data on Brazilian Amazon׳s non-wood native biomass sources for bioenergy production

This data article presents a set of non-wood native biomass sources identified for bioenergy production in isolated communities living in Amazon׳s extractive reserves. The data were inventoried using management plan documentation, which provides technical information on Amazon׳s protected areas. The sample was collected from a virtual database published by the Ministry of Environment, the federal body responsible for managing protected areas in Brazil. Five variables were extracted from the management plans to produce the inventory, which includes data on biomass typology, nomenclature and occurrence, as well as mode of access to communities and availability of energy sources in the protected areas.


a b s t r a c t
This data article presents a set of non-wood native biomass sources identified for bioenergy production in isolated communities living in Amazon's extractive reserves. The data were inventoried using management plan documentation, which provides technical information on Amazon's protected areas. The sample was collected from a virtual database published by the Ministry of Environment, the federal body responsible for managing protected areas in Brazil. Five variables were extracted from the management plans to produce the inventory, which includes data on biomass typology, nomenclature and occurrence, as well as mode of access to communities and availability of energy sources in the protected areas.

Subject area
Renewable energy, environment More specific subject area Native biomass for bioenergy production Type of data Tables, text file Value of the data The present data provide information on non-wood native biomass sources that are locally available in extractive reserves of a developing country.
The data support the use of locally available non-wood biomass materials as a renewable source for bioenergy generation.
The data can be used for comparison with other non-wood native biomass sources. The data may contribute to reducing the use of fossil fuels in Amazon's protected areas.

Data
This data article consists of an inventory of Amazon's non-wood native biomass sources for bioenergy production in isolated communities living in extractive reserves. The data indicate the types of non-wood native biomass sources identified through analysis of management plan documentation of the Brazilian Amazon's protected areas, including popular and scientific names as well as their measured occurrence in extractive reserves (Table 1). Table 2 shows the modes of access to conservation units and the availability of energy sources for the isolated communities living in the extractive reserves. If energy is available, it also includes which energy source is used (fossil, renewable or public distribution network) and who bears the cost (public if provided by the state or private if shared by local residents).
Management plan data were collected, processed and shared in the supplementary material of this data article. The data set consists of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (XLSX file) containing raw extracted data, and a detailed description presented in Tables 1 and 2 of this article.

Experimental design, materials, and methods
This article includes qualitative and quantitative data collected from technical documents, or management plans, of Amazon's extractive reserves. Of the 50 extractive reserves in the Brazilian Amazon, 33 have not published the referred document (Table 3); thus, the present sample consists of 17 management plans (Table 4).
Thirty out of the 33 conservation units without a management plan are not complying with the 5-year deadline to prepare the document, according to current legislation [1]. The remaining extractive reserves, namely Marinha Cuinarana (state of Pará, PA), Marinha Mestre Lucindo (PA), and Marinha Mocapajuba (PA), are within the established deadline, as they were created in 2014.
The management plans of the conservation units were collected from a virtual database published by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, the federal body responsible for managing protected areas in Brazil. Data collection was based on the inventory of the following variables: (i) non-wood native biomass resources, including popular and scientific names of species; (ii) type of access to the conservation unit; (iii) energy availability in the isolated communities living in extractive reserves; and, in case it is available, (iv) which energy source is used (fossil, renewable, or public distribution network) and (v) who bears the cost (public sector or private households).