Landscapes on the Move: Land-Use Change History in a Mexican Agroforest Frontier

Berget, Carolina; Verschoor, Gerard; Garcı́a-Frapolli, Eduardo; Mondragón-Vázquez, Edith; Bongers, Frans

doi:10.3390/land10101066

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“…Our results show that forest dynamics can be explained by a complex interplay of drivers across time, space and scale (cf. Berget et al., 2021). Results give insights into agricultural frontier development and have consequences for conservation and restoration.…”

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Mexican agricultural frontier communities differ in forest dynamics with consequences for conservation and restoration

Lohbeck

DeVries

Bongers

et al. 2022

Remote Sens Ecol Conserv

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Forest regrowth is key to achieve restoration commitments, but a general lack of understanding when it occurs and how long secondary forests persist hampers effective upscaling. We quantified spatiotemporal forest dynamics in a recently colonized agricultural frontier in southern Mexico, and tested how temporal variation in climate, and cross-community variation in land ownership, land quality and accessibility affect forest disturbance, regrowth and secondary forest persistence. We consistently found more forest loss than regrowth, resulting in a net decrease of 45% forest cover in the study region. Secondary forest cover remained relatively constant while secondary forest persistence increased, suggesting that farmers are moving away from shifting cultivation. Temporal variation in disturbance was explained by annual variation in climatic variables and key policy and market interventions. We found large differences in forest characteristics across communities, and these were explained by differences in land ownership and soil quality. Forests were better conserved on communal land, while secondary forest was more persistent when farms were larger and soil quality is better. At the pixel-level both old forest and secondary forests were better represented on low-quality lands indicating agricultural concentration on productive land. Both old forest and secondary forest were less common close to the main road, where secondary forests were also less persistent. We demonstrate the suitability of timeseries analyses to quantify forest disturbance and regrowth and we analyse drivers across time and space. Communities differ in forest dynamics, indicating different possibilities, needs and interests. We warrant that stimulating private land ownership may cause remaining forest patches to be lost and that conservation initiatives should benefit the whole community. Forest regrowth competes with agricultural production and ensuring farmers have access to restoration benefits is key to restoration success.

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Mexican agricultural frontier communities differ in forest dynamics with consequences for conservation and restoration

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DeVries

Bongers

et al. 2022

Remote Sens Ecol Conserv

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“…En las décadas de los 80 y 90, México experimentó el proceso de degradación ambiental más acelerado de su historia, con cerca del 48% de la cobertura vegetal nativa deforestada y transformada, principalmente en el sureste del país (Challenger et al, 2008). Este escenario no ha cambiado en los últimos veinte años, y gran parte del paisaje original del trópico mexicano se ha convertido en un mosaico de cultivos y potreros muy cambiante y complejo (Figura 1; Berget et al, 2021). Miles de especies animales y vegetales se han visto afectadas por la deforestación y cambio de uso del suelo.…”

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Heliconias: de plantas ornamentales a pequeños microhábitats dentro de las selvas tropicales

Méndez Rojas,

Lobato-García,

Benítez-Malvido

2024

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Las heliconias, conocidas como “platanillos”, son plantas que se destacan por la llamativa coloración de sus inflorescencias. Este escrito explora a fondo estas especies que habitan las selvas tropicales, centrándose en sus múltiples facetas. Examina los usos predominantes de las heliconias, tanto como plantas ornamentales en entornos rurales y urbanos como en rituales religiosos. Una atención especial se dedica a las inflorescencias de las heliconias, consideradas como ecosistemas en miniatura. Estas estructuras albergan diversas especies de insectos y otros invertebrados que viven, se alimentan y se reproducen dentro de las hojas modificadas conocidas como brácteas. Sin embargo, el artículo resalta una amenaza inminente: la destrucción de las selvas tropicales. Este factor no sólo pone en peligro la supervivencia de las heliconias, sino también la diversidad de insectos e invertebrados asociados a ellas.

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“…To understand the reasons for the transformation of agricultural landscape patterns, in-depth case studies are important, in addition to macrolevel studies [74]. Case studies are used to better integrate and understand the social and physical drivers of land use change at different temporal and spatial scales, and it is important to combine remote sensing data with field research to ensure that the findings are scientifically sound and accurate [75].…”

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Impacts of Policy-Driven Transformation in the Livelihoods of Fishermen on Agricultural Landscape Patterns: A Case Study of a Fishing Village, Island of Poyang Lake

Zhong

et al. 2022

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The agricultural landscape patterns of fishing village have undergone visible transformations in recent decades. Scholars pay less attention to fishermen with diverse livelihoods. Therefore, it is necessary to sort out the changing characteristics of fishermen’ livelihoods and agricultural landscape patterns under different policy periods. We use in-depth interviews, remote sensing technology, and mathematical analysis to systematically study the changes in fishermen’s livelihoods and in agricultural landscape patterns in a typical fishing village. The results show that policy have profoundly affected fishermen’ livelihoods. Livelihood transformation have altered local land use practices, which had a direct impact on agricultural landscape patterns. The livelihood of fishermen has changed from diverse to single, and their cropping structure were gradually becoming simpler and more specialised. After grazing ban and comprehensive fishing ban, many fishermen migrated to towns and cities, it accelerated the loss of population in the fishing village, which caused the amount of abandoned land increasingly. Left-behind fishermen became rice farmers by contracting abandoned paddy fields. The expanses of abandoned land and bamboo woodland had increased, which caused agricultural landscape patterns gradually becoming fragmented, heterogeneous and complex.

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Landscapes on the Move: Land-Use Change History in a Mexican Agroforest Frontier

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Mexican agricultural frontier communities differ in forest dynamics with consequences for conservation and restoration

Mexican agricultural frontier communities differ in forest dynamics with consequences for conservation and restoration

Heliconias: de plantas ornamentales a pequeños microhábitats dentro de las selvas tropicales

Impacts of Policy-Driven Transformation in the Livelihoods of Fishermen on Agricultural Landscape Patterns: A Case Study of a Fishing Village, Island of Poyang Lake

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