Eliane Ceccon

National Autonomous University of Mexico | UNAM · Regional Centre of Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM)

Looking ahead to the United Nations’ 2021‐2030 Decade of Ecosystems Restoration, we would like to ponder and discuss two fundamental goals to improve, mainstream, and scale up ecological restoration. The first is to cultivate alternative visions of the human dimension in relation to ecological restoration and other restorative activities. The secon...

Traditional-homegardens are important for the food security, economy, and culture of rural communities, but also contributing to biodiversity conservation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of traditional-homegardens as a refuge for birds, how the birds used them, and which of their attributes were associated with the frequency o...

El capital social es un constructo teórico que propone escenarios donde valores como la cooperación, la comunicación y la confianza entre las personas pueden crear un ambiente ideal para la solución de problemas socioambientales. Por su parte, la restauración ecológica está ganando impulso, ya que 2021-2030 será “La Década de la Restauración de los...

La pérdida de biodiversidad se ha incrementado de manera alarmante en las últimas décadas. A pesar de los esfuerzos realizados para incentivar la conservación de ecosistemas, especies y genes, las tasas de extinción siguen siendo altas. Una estrategia para mitigar estos impactos es impulsar acciones de restauración a nivel de paisaje. El principal...

La pérdida de biodiversidad se ha incrementado en las últimas décadas. La conexión del paisaje por restauración permite conectar fragmentos de bosque aislados para mejorar flujo génico, En Jalpan Puebla se analizó la fragmentación, la conectividad y las variables socioeconómicas del paisaje con imágenes de satélite de 1999 y 2021, Calculándose tre...

Degradation is limiting the ability of arid lands to provide ecosystem services. Agroforestry Systems can supply several of these ecosystem services. In this context, we carried out a systematic review of literature, to find the ecosystem services provided by Agroforestry Systems in arid lands irrigated by rainwater harvesting systems in worldwide....

The science of landscape ecology aims to study quantitative variables to modelling relationships between ecological processes in ecosystems and the effect of human disturbances. The landscape, however, is a holistic system in which nature and culture co-evolve. Hence, management interventions designed to support sustainability and the conservation...

Antecedentes: Los Sistemas Agroforestales Tradicionales en México son diversos y constribuyen a la conservación de la vegetación y también al bienestar de las personas de comunidades rurales. Sin embargo los Sistemas Agroforestales Tradicionales del Bosque Tropical han sido poco documentados, particularmente los de la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra...

La crisis global provocada por la destrucción de los ecosistemas naturales y el cambio climático, provocan la disfunción de aspectos esenciales de la vida en la tierra, amenazando el bienestar de los seres humanos. Por lo tanto, la sociedad debe revisar sus paradigmas ante esta nueva realidad. La restauración ecológica y la ecología de la resta...

Mexico is a biologically megadiverse country and is the fourth nation in terms of species richness. This country is home to 25,000–30,000 species of plants, one of which is woody bamboo. There are 58 Mexican woody bamboo species, and 41 of these species are endemic to Mexico, Chiapas is the richest State in woody bamboo species. Regrettably, most e...

Social capital is a theoretical construct that proposes scenarios where values such as cooperation, communication, and confidence among people can create an ideal environment for the solution of socioecological problems, reducing participative project transaction costs and guaranteeing their long-term permanence. For its part, ecological restoratio...

La Montaña, one of seven regions making up the state of Guerrero, Mexico, has high social-ecological vulnerability. Its extreme poverty and marginalization levels are among the country’s highest, superimposed in a context of severe ecosystem degradation. We evaluated the social-ecological resilience of two indigenous communities of this region enga...

La Montaña region, in southern Mexico, is characterized as a highly human-modified landscape with a rough topography, extreme poverty and structural violence. In this region, Xuajin Me'Phaa, an Indigenous non-governmental organization conformed by ca. 300 peasants, implements productive restoration projects and trades organic hibiscus ( Hibiscus sa...

Worldwide deforestation and degradation are limiting the capacity of tropical dry forests (TDFs) to provide environmental services. Agroforestry systems (AFSs) are agricultural land systems that combining perennial elements with crops, can provide important benefits to people (e.g. timber and non-timber products) and the environment (e.g. hosting b...

Abstract Background: The presence of crude oil (CO) in the soil can lead to the death of plant species that cannot acclimate to these conditions. Questions: What will be the physiological response of two tree species growing in soil contaminated with different concentrations of CO? What will be its physiological plasticity in this context? Study sp...

Understanding how biological communities respond to human-caused landscape disturbances is urgently needed to identify optimal spatial scenarios for preserving biodiversity in anthropogenic landscapes. Forest loss is increasingly cited as a major disturbance in these landscapes, but its impact on biodiversity in mountain regions with high endemism...

realizó un diagnostico participativo para evaluar la sustentabilidad del cultivo agroforestal orgánico de Hibiscus sadariffa (jamaica) y el uso de leña y sus consecuencias sobre la de�gradación del paisaje. En la siguiente fase se realizaron experimentos agroforestales para buscar, a través de la investigación participativa, mejorar los puntos cr...

CONTEXT Small-scale cropping systems face enormous challenges in obtaining efficient, stable and predictable responses to grain yields due to their great biophysical, management and socioeconomic complexity. In Mesoamerica, traditional managements have incorporated modern agricultural practices; however, the efficacy of these tools on grain yield a...

In Mexico, dry forests are one of the ecosystems in major need of restoration intervention. Here, we explored the ecological and social limitations on the restoration of Mexican dry forests from the perspective of restoration practitioners and researchers. We included three data sources: (i) projects included in a national evaluation (1979-2016), (...

La restauración de ecosistemas como fue definida por la “Sociedad Internacional de Restauración Ecológica” (SER en inglés) debería ser más compleja, principalmente en países con innumerables problemas socioecológicos como México. En este caso, la restauración debería fomentar nuevas relaciones sociales y políticas con respecto a la naturaleza, inco...

A dimensão social na restauração ecológica: um desafio e uma possível solução para a crise socio-ecológica mundial, por Eliane … https://www.americalatina.net.br/a-A dimensão social na restauração ecológica: um desafio e uma possível solução para a crise socio-ecológica mundial, por Eliane Ceccon     Sem dúvida, a degradação do solo e dos servi...

In rural dryland areas, the socioeconomic diagnosis of the population and their traditional knowledge of the flora are key to restoration. In this study, we asked rural people (locally called “puesteros”) about their knowledge of the native flora, in a settlement of 160 inhabitants, located in drylands of Argentine. For this, semi-structured survey...

¿Tiene México las condiciones técnicas y económicas para abordar con responsabilidad la década de la restauración Ecológica? ¿Compensan las acciones actuales de RE en México las tasas de degradación de sus ecosistemas? ¿Qué tanto pesa la producción científica en el desarrollo de la RE ecológica en México? ¿Qué tanto aportan y podrían aportan las in...

In rural dryland areas, the socioeconomic diagnosis of the population and their traditional knowledge of the flora are key to restoration. In this study, we asked rural people (locally called “puesteros”) about their knowledge of the native flora, in a settlement of 160 inhabitants, located in drylands of Argentine. For this, semi-structured survey...

El departamento de Caquetá, en la Amazonia colombiana, tiene un contexto histórico de deforestación, problemas con la calidad de laeducación en zonas rurales, conflictos sobre tenencia de la tierra y violencia social. Por lo tanto, existe una necesidad urgente de restaurarno solo el ecosistema, sino también el tejido social y la relación sociedad-n...

Forest regeneration at large-scales is one of the main paths to achieving the ongoing ambitious restoration commitments. Thus, the identification of the main drivers of this process in agricultural landscapes is critical to understand the drivers determining restoration success. A growing number of studies have explored the biophysical and, less of...

Outcomes from restoration projects are often difficult for policymakers and stakeholders to assess, but this information is fundamental for scaling up ecological restoration actions. We evaluated technical aspects of the interventions, results (ecological and socio-economic) and monitoring practices in 75 restoration projects in Mexico using a digi...

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Background: A deep discussion of the phases of planning by all stakeholders will help to identify the challenges faced by countries that are embarking on large-scale restoration actions to comply with international agreements. Question: Was the planning phase of restoration projects done according to international guidance? We evaluated six of the...

México perdió grandes áreas de sus ecosistemas en las últimas décadas. Buena parte están en manos de comunidades rurales, y sus cambios de uso del suelo afectan la biodiversidad, y reducen muchos servicios ecosistémicos vitales. En las últimas cuatro décadas estos procesos fueron analizados por diversas herramientas de análisis espacial, como las t...

Restoration of traditional agroforestry systems is gaining importance, as they provide viable and long-lasting solutions to the global socioecological crisis, especially in poor rural areas. In this study, we evaluated the motivation and socioecological benefits obtained from a community-based restoration project of traditional home gardens (THs);...

The use of organic soil amendments provides a feasible option for low-income farmers in sustaining crop production. In La Montaña, in southern Mexico, farmers cultivate organic hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) as their main income source, but yields are low. This study aimed at evaluating the decomposition and nutrient release rates of species tradit...

Ecosystem restoration is gaining momentum worldwide, but restoration projects frequently fall short of addressing the human dimension, notably through the involvement of local people. While social participation has been recognized to have a fundamental role in the success and sustainability of forest management projects, it is frequently not incorp...

Natural regeneration is key for large-scale forest restoration, yet it may lead to different biodiversity outcomes depending on socio-environmental context. We combined the results of a global meta-analysis to quantify how biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating forests deviates from biodiversity values in reference old-growth forests, with...

This study analyses the role of agroecological practices and cooperativism as a response to socio-ecological vulnerability in one of the poorest and most degraded rural regions in Mexico. It explores the case of an indigenous cooperative whose presence allows members market for their products; however, its agreement with a major supermarket chain i...

Looking ahead to the United Nations’ 2021-2030 Decade of Ecosystems Restoration, we would like to ponder and discuss two fundamental goals to improve, mainstream, and scale up ecological restoration. The first is to cultivate alternative visions of the human dimension in relation to ecological restoration and other restorative activities. The secon...

Caquetá Department, in Colombian Amazon, has a historical context of deforestation, education of poor quality, land tenure conflicts, and social violence. Thus, there is an urgent need to restore not only the ecosystem, but also the social fabric and the society‐nature relationship. This paper describes the process, impacts, obstacles, and lessons...

In the “La Montaña” region of Guerrero, Mexico, despite being a predominantly rural region, the conditions are unfavorable for agriculture due to steep slopes and highly seasonal climate. There is also severe degradation of natural resources. One of the ethnic groups inhabiting this region is a pre-Columbian group known as the Me’phaa. This social...

In tropical dry forests, although seed germination and seedling establishment are in general limited by the seasonal availability of water, high interspecific variability, nonetheless, exists in terms of seedling traits and germination dynamics. Differences among species in seed germination and seedling traits may be related to other plant life-his...

Tabebuia rosea es una especie arbórea que tiene la capacidad de tolerar hidrocarburos del petróleo (HP) en suelo. Sin embargo, existe poca información sobre los mecanismos fisiológicos que se lo permiten, así que el objetivo fue evaluar su desempeño fisiológico creciendo bajo diferentes concentraciones de HP [15,175 mg kg-1 (bajo; LC), 15,292 mg kg...

Bamboos ecological functions on environmental services and productive ecosystems restoration. This article is a bibliographic review on the ecological functions that distinguish bamboos, for which they deserve greater recognition and inclusion in ecological restoration programs. Bamboos are a highly diverse, geographically widespread and economical...

Anthropogenic activities have degraded many ecosystems worldwide. To face this problem, ecological restoration arises as an activity that seeks the recovery of ecosystems. A group of plants that have potential to be used in restoration are bamboos, because they possess ecological characteristics that provide many environmental services such as the...

The marceño agroecosystem is based on traditional agriculture in the flooded areas of the alluvial plains of Tabasco, Mexico. In the marceño system, the native maize, called "mején", is cultivated during the dry season using residual soil moisture. At physiological maturity, mején is tolerant to flooding. To estimate the potential area where marceñ...

In La Montaña, Guerrero, one of the poorest regions in Mexico, the indigenous Non-Government Organization Xuajin Me´Phaa produces hibiscus and other organic products. The sustainability of hibiscus production was evaluated by comparing organic and conventional systems. The organic system showed lower yields, higher levels of soil organic matter and...

Presentamos la serie Construyendo lo Común como un medio para el encuentro de voces reflexivas muy diversas que comparten la intención de colaborar para transformar el mundo en el que vivimos en uno más sustentable, solidario y justo. Éste, el primer libro de la serie, ofrece una compilación de experiencias surgida del esfuerzo común y la autoría c...

Movement patterns resembling Lévy walks, often attributed to the execution of an advantageous probabilistic searching strategy, are found in a wide variety of organisms, from cells to human hunter-gatherers. It has been suggested that such movement patterns may be fundamental to how humans interact and experience the world and that they may have ar...

Fortran code to simulate meandering and showing emergence of Lévy walks. (FOR)

Link to satellite images corresponding to Figs 4, 5 and 6 together with further examples of recorded trajectories in Mexico and Brazil. An example of a simulated trajectory (Figure A). Example of a simulated trajectory. At each time-step incremental displacements in the direction of the trail (running east to west) were drawn at random from an expo...

Fortran code used to fit model distributions to GPS data. (FOR)

GPS data for the Brazilian Cariri farmers. (ZIP)

GPS data for the MePhaa. (ZIP)

GPS data for the Amazonian farmers. (ZIP)

Hasta la fecha, las acciones encaminadas a la restauración ecológica de los ecosistemas terrestres en México no han sido documentadas de forma sistemática con el propósito de extraer lecciones aprendidas e identificar vacíos de información. El presente estudio describe la situación actual de la práctica de restauración ecológica en sus dimensiones...

This book invites us to reflect on the restoration of terrestrial ecosystems in the context of a region whose identity is still under construction, Latin America and the Caribbean, immersed in a social, economic, ecological and political crisis, whose roots originate historically and politically in colonialism and in the prevailing model of capital...

En México, las acciones encaminadas a la recuperación de las condiciones, procesos y funciones de los ecosistemas que han sido degradados (i.e., restauración ecológica) necesitan ser documentadas de forma sistemática. Así, el propósito del presente estudio fue caracterizar de manera retrospectiva, los enfoques y estrategias relacionadas con la rest...

We assessed the effects of seed priming and soil retainers on seed germination and early seedling performance of useful species in a tropical semideciduous forest in Veracruz, México. We determined mass and water and lipid content in the seeds of Albizia saman, Cedrela odorata, Enterolobium cyclocarpum, and Swietenia macrophylla. The seeds were exp...

La ecología de la restauración es una disciplina científica que a partir de la teoría ecológica desarrolla principios para guiar la práctica de la restauración de los ecosistemas. El objetivo de esta revisión es exponer una síntesis de la situación actual y las perspectivas de la ecología de la restauración en México, así como los retos de la inves...

La región de la Montaña presenta altos índices de pobreza y de deforestación. Al mismo tiempo, sus habitantes poseen una alta y generalizada dependencia sobre sus recursos naturales, de manera particular sobre la leña. El objetivo de este trabajo fue caracterizar y cuantificar socio-ambientalmente el uso de la leña y determinar si los patrones de c...

Ecological restoration seems to run between ecocentric and utilitarian visions. In the latter, the tradition of nature as an exploitable object prevails. Confidence in technology and, in particular, the massive implementation of restoration works, for many, operates as a justification for deepening the current economic model and solving its devasta...