Jose Javier Corral-Rivas

Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango · Instituto de Silvicultura e Industria de la Madera

Forest certification is a private, voluntary and market-driven instrument designed to promote responsible forest management. This paper focused on the FSC and the NOM NMX-AA-143-SCFI-2008 schemes used in Mexico for the certification of sustainable forest management. In this paper we used the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) to study the factor...

Las áreas naturales protegidas buscan la conservación de la biodiversidad. El objetivo del estudio fue describir la diversidad de especies arbóreas y su importancia ecológica en el Parque Ecológico El Tecuán en Durango, México. Se realizó un muestreo sistemático estratificado con 168 sitios circulares de 1,000 m² cada uno, distribuidos en 511.16 he...

Even though the site index is a popular method for describing forest productivity, its use is limited in uneven-aged multispecies forests. Accordingly, the site form (SF) is an alternative measure of productivity to the site index based on the tree height–diameter relationship. Our study aims to evaluate SF as a measure of productivity in the tempe...

Agave lechuguilla Torr., of the family Agavaceae, is distributed from southwestern United States to southern Mexico and is one of the most representative species of arid and semiarid regions. Its fiber is extracted for multiple purposes. The objective of this study was to generate a robust model to predict dry fiber yield ( Dfw ) rapidly, simply, a...

Las distribuciones diamétricas son un factor importante en la caracterización del rodal, ya que el diámetro, generalmente, está correlacionado con otras variables de interés como la altura, volumen, biomasa, etcétera, esto permite conocer el tipo de productos que pueden obtenerse del bosque. El objetivo de la presente investigación fue desarrollar...

The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain LDG, but rigorous tests of the drivers of LDGs have been limited by a lack of high-quality global species richness data. Here we...

Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, yet their functioning is threatened by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. Global actions to conserve tropical forests could be enhanced by having local knowledge on the forestsʼ functional diversity and functional redundancy as proxies for their capacity to respon...

The remote sensing of fire severity and burned area is fundamental in the evaluation of fire impacts. The current study aimed to: (i) compare Sentinel-2 (S2) spectral indices to predict field-observed fire severity in Durango, Mexico; (ii) evaluate the effect of the compositing period (1 or 3 months), techniques (average or minimum), and phenologic...

Tree aboveground biomass (e.g., bole, branches, and foliage), M, plays key roles in forest management as it is the basis for evaluating the sink and flux of, for example, carbon and nitrogen, stand productivity, dendro-energy, litter & root biomass, hydrological parameters, among others. With the aim of further simplifying and understanding M, the...

Se realizó un análisis para evaluar el efecto, en un periodo de 10 años, de la aplicación del Método Silvícola de Selección sobre la diversidad y estructura en un bosque templado de la Sierra de Durango, México. Se compararon doce Sitios Permanentes de Investigación Forestal y de Suelos (SPIFyS), los cuales fueron remedidos. El análisis comparativo...

Citation: López-Martínez, J.O.; Vargas-Larreta, B.; González, E.J.; Corral-Rivas, J.J.; Aguirre-Calderón, O.A.; Treviño-Garza, E.J.; De los Santos-Posadas, H.M.; Martínez-Salvador, M.; Zamudio-Sánchez, F.J.; Aguirre-Calderón, C.G. Forest Biometric Systems in Mexico: A Systematic Review of Available Models. Forests 2022, 13, 649.

Geographic variables can largely determine species structure and diversity. The objective of the study was to determine whether there are differences between the components that make up the structure, diversity, and floristic composition in relation to exposure and altitude in temperate forests of the state of Durango. The mensuration data were obt...

Context and Background. Active fires have the potential to provide early estimates of fire perimeters, but there is a lack of information about the best active fire aggregation distances and how they can vary between fuel types, particularly in large areas of study under diverse climatic conditions. Objectives. The current study aimed at analyzing...

El presente estudio evaluó el efecto de tratamientos silvícolas en la diversidad y estructura de especies en ecosistemas forestales de clima templado en el Municipio de Pueblo Nuevo del Estado de Durango, México; se realizó con la finalidad de conocer si el aprovechamiento forestal modifica la diversidad, mezcla de especies, distribución espacial y...

Los bosques templados requieren de un monitoreo periódico con el fin de lograr un manejo sustentable. Los sensores remotos permiten hacer estimaciones de manera indirecta bajo el supuesto de que existe una correlación estadística entre datos satelitales y parámetros forestales. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue estimar el área basal (G), el volu...

Los bosques templados requieren de un monitoreo periódico con el fin de lograr un manejo sustentable. Los sensores remotos permiten hacer estimaciones de manera indirecta bajo el supuesto de que existe una correlación estadística entre datos satelitales y parámetros forestales. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue estimar el área basal (G), el volu...

El estudio de la severidad por incendios forestales es esencial para priorizar acciones de restauración y manejo integral ecológico de la superficie afectada con altos niveles de impacto, considerando que, una vez suscitado el incendio, aumenta el riesgo hidrológico y erosivo en el suelo. A si mismo se ha propuesto esta metodología para determin...

El manejo forestal a través de la aplicación de tratamientos silvícolas adecuados permite lograr la persistencia, el rendimiento sostenido y la máxima producción de los bosques. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el incremento en volumen fustal de árboles de Pinus durangensis, a partir del análisis de los anillos de crecimiento mediante la téc...

Background Studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity have suggested that species richness and functional diversity are the main drivers of ecosystem processes. Several patterns on this relationship have been found, including positive, unimodal, negative, and neutral trends, keeping the issue controversial. In this...

Estimating tree volume components is an essential element in sustainable forest management. Compatible taper and merchantable outside-bark volume systems based on volume ratio models were globally fitted to four pine species (reduced models) with the aim to select the best reduced model and to fit it with dummy variables and additive effects using...

Recurrent problems have been observed for biomass measurement in tree sprouts, mainly dueto differences in patterns of biomass distribution and the bias generated by using models for mature trees.The objective of this research was to evaluate models to estimate aboveground biomass in sprouts from two-year-old stumps of Short Rotation Woody Crops (S...

Aims Traditional quantitative approaches to forest classification are based on differences in species abundance or incidence among communities. In these approaches, all species are regarded as biologically equidistant regardless of the biological heterogeneity. The objective of the study is to evaluate the potential of the “Discriminating Avalanche...

El objetivo fue estimar el volumen forestal (m3 ha-1) mediante información obtenida del Sistema de Planeación Forestal (SiPlaFor) y datos espectrales de imágenes de satélite del sensor Landsat 8 OLI en el Ejido La Victoria Pueblo Nuevo, Durango, México. Se utilizó la técnica no paramétrica Random Forest para la estimación del volumen forestal. Los...

Background Forest plantations play an important role in carbon sequestration, helping to mitigate climate change. In this study, survival, biomass, growth rings and annual carbon content storage were evaluated in a mixed Pinus durangensis and P. cooperi plantation that was established after a clear-cutting. The plantation is eight years old and cov...

The spatial structure reflects the pattern of arrangement of trees on the ground and is a basic element to understand the dynamics of forest ecosystems. The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the bivariate structural characteristics of five different associations of Pinus durangensis forests, identifying the similarities and dif...

Background: Studies on the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity have suggested that species richness and functional diversity are the main drivers of ecosystem processes. There is no general pattern regarding the relationship found in various studies, and positive, unimodal, negative, and neutral relationships keep the issu...

Background: Studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity have suggested that species richness and functional diversity are the main drivers of ecosystem processes. Several patterns on this relationship have been found, including positive, unimodal, negative, and neutral trends, keeping the issue controversial. In this...

Background: Studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity have suggested that species richness and functional diversity are the main drivers of ecosystem processes. Several patterns on this relationship have been found, including positive, unimodal, negative, and neutral trends, keeping the issue controversial. In this...

In contrast with current operational products of burned area, which are generally available one month after the fire, active fires are readily available, with potential application for early evaluation of approximate fire perimeters to support fire management decision making in near real time. While previous coarse-scale studies have focused on rel...

El propósito de este trabajo fue describir la estructura espacial e investigar las interacciones o correlaciones espaciales entre algunas características de árboles en bosques mixtos e irregulares en el estado de Durango. Se usó la localización horizontal y ciertos atributos de los individuos arbóreos de 446 sitios permanentes de investigación fore...

Los incendios forestales producen enormes daños ambientales por la afectación o destrucción de la cubierta vegetal, la muerte o huida de miles de animales, la pérdida del suelo fértil y el avance de la erosión. Además pueden suponer todos los años, la pérdida de vidas humanas y grandes daños en los bosques, cultivos y viviendas. Las pérdidas económ...

Lack of knowledge of individual tree growth in species-rich, mixed forest ecosystems impedes their sustainable management. In this study, species-specific models for predicting individual diameter at breast height (dbh) and total tree height (h) growth were developed for 30 tree species growing in mixed and uneven-aged forest stands in Durango, Mex...

The Mexican Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO) represents a region where hundreds of plant species reach the limits of their northern or southern range. The SMO also features a unique cultural diversity, and many communities living within the forest or in its close vicinity depend on the products and services that these forests provide. Our study was ba...

Antecedentes y Objetivos: El manejo forestal ocasiona cambios en la composición, estructura y funcionamiento del bosque. El objetivo de este estudio fue comparar la estructura de especies arbóreas en un periodo de 10 años en un bosque de Durango, México.Métodos: Los datos provienen de árboles con DAP mayor o igual a 7.5 cm (a una altura >1.3 m), ub...

La calidad dimensional de la madera aserrada es variable en función de los métodos de trabajo, el grado de mantenimiento y precisión de los equipos de asierre; además sus implicaciones en la madera seca y cepillada no se han documentado. El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar, si el grueso de asierre de 7/8” (22.23 mm) garantiza obtener madera...

An accurate estimation of forests' aboveground biomass (AGB) is required because of its relevance to the carbon cycle, and because of its economic and ecological importance. The selection of appropriate variables from satellite information and physical variables is important for precise AGB prediction mapping. Because of the complex relationships f...

Introduction: Predictions of dominant or co-dominant height are an important element in planning forest management with timber production objectives. Objective: To develop dominant height growth and site index (SI) equations for Quercus sideroxyla Bonpl. Materials and methods: The height current annual increment model was fitted, and the age of the...

The forest management-planning in northwest of Durango, Mexico involve mixed-species stands and the selection method is normally applied for uneven-aged stands in such forests. An individual distance-dependent model without age was used to evaluated the diameter at breast height (dbh) growth and neighborhood effects for four species groups in mixed...

Background: Understanding the temporal patterns of fire occurrence and their relationships with fuel dryness is key to sound fire management, especially under increasing global warming. At present, no system for prediction of fire occurrence risk based on fuel dryness conditions is available in Mexico. As part of an ongoing national-scale project,...

Varias especies de los géneros Eucalyptus y Acacia son adecuadas para la producción de biomasa útil en la generación de energía. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar la su-pervivencia y características del rebrote en tocones de cuatro especies dendroenergéticas en tres diferentes densidades poblacionales. Se utilizó un diseño de bloques com...

Se realizó la evaluación del rendimiento volumétrico y la calidad dimensional de la madera en cinco aserraderos de El Salto, Durango, México. Para tal efecto, se dio seguimiento a los productos generados a partir de 412 trozas de pino con un volumen de 293.73 m3 rollo sin corteza; de ellas se obtuvieron 7,085 tablas de diferentes dimensiones y clas...

Background: Dissimilarity in community composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous features by which different forest ecosystems may be distinguished. Traditional estimates of community dissimilarity are based on differences in species incidence or abundance (e.g. the Jaccard, Sørensen, and Bray-Curtis dissimilarity indices). However...

The spatial fire occurrence maps estimates could be integrated into operational GIS tools for assistance in fire danger mapping and fire and fuel management decision making.Some studies have proposed that the occurrence of forest fires increases with increasing levels of forest productivity, biomass, basal area or other biometric characteristics(Bo...

INTRODUCCIÓN La reforestación es un conjunto de actividades que comprende la planeación, la operación, el control y la supervisión de todos los procesos involucrados en la plantación de árboles (CONAFOR, 2010). (Wightman & cruz, 2003) define reforestación como actividad forestal de gran importancia para restaurar y volver productivas las áreas defo...

2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. In this Letter, the middle initial of author G. J. Nabuurs was omitted, and he should have been associated with an additional affiliation: ‘Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands’ (now added as affiliation 18...

Understanding the spatial patterns of fire occurrence is key for improved forest fires management, particularly under global change scenarios. Very few studies have attempted to relate satellite-based aboveground biomass maps of moderate spatial resolution to spatial fire occurrence under a variety of climatic and vegetation conditions. This study...

A spatially explicit global map of tree symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi reveals that climate variables are the primary drivers of the distribution of different types of symbiosis.

This presentation introduces the project "Development of a Forest Fire Danger System for Mexico" funded by the Mexican Forest Agency CONAFOR. The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an operational fire danger system for mapping daily and forecasted fire risk occurrence and fire propagation danger in Mexico, which will be online for decision-ma...

Ground contact speeds up timber decay because of the large number of microorganisms in soil. This study, we assessed the natural durability of seven tropical species using the European standard EN-807 (2001). We embedded samples of Dalbergia granadillo, Cordia elaeagnoides, Swietenia humillis, Tabebuia donell-smithii, Hura polyandra, Enterolobium c...

El preacondicionamiento mediante estrés hídrico favorece los mecanismos de resistencia a la sequía de los árboles una vez plantados. Se realizó un ensayo con el objetivo de determinar el efecto de tres condiciones de estrés hídrico a través de riego cada 48, 144 y 288 horas, en el preacondicionamiento de plantas de nueve meses de Pinus cooperi prod...

Wood plastic composites (WPC) have a great potential for development and they can replace in many cases both plastic structures or solid wood. The objective of this study was to determine some physical and mechanical properties of wood plastic composite elaborated form forest residues of Pinus pseudostrobus Lindl. and Abies religiosa (Kunth) Schltd...

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue determinar el depósito y la tasa de descomposición de hojarasca de Pinus cooperi en parcelas bajo diferentes intensidades de aclareos (tratamientos) (testigo; T1: Aclareo ligero; T2: Moderado; T3: Fuerte; T4: Severo; T5: Porvenir) en el ejido La Ciudad de Pueblo Nuevo, Durango. Después de un año de observación,...

El manejo forestal es un proceso de toma de decisiones para la administración de los bosques a través del tiempo, y en esta época los silvicultores enfrentan el desafío de satisfacer la creciente necesidad de productos forestales y a la vez garantizar los servicios ecosistémicos que proporcionan los bosques, tales como el mantenimiento de la biodiv...

El Agave durangensis Gentry, es un recurso natural que ha sido aprovechado de manera empírica por los pobladores de la zona semidesértica del estado de Durango. No se cuenta con elementos científicos y normativos que regulen u optimicen la cosecha de este producto; por lo tanto, contar con el presente, proporciona los instrumentos necesarios para e...

Site index models represent an important tool to classify forest productivity. The goal of this research was to develop dynamic site equations derived with the Generalized Algebraic Difference approach (GADA) for four pine species growing in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico. Data from stem analyses of Pinus oaxacana, P. douglasiana, P. patula...

Los modelos de índice de sitio representan una herramienta silvícola muy importante para clasificar la productividad de los bosques. El objetivo de este trabajo fue desarrollar ecuaciones dinámicas de índice de sitio derivadas, mediante el método de Diferencias Algebraicas Generalizadas (GADA), para cuatro especies de pino en la Sierra Norte del es...

Key message More accurate diameter at breast height (dbh)-growth models are needed for developing management tools for mixed-species forests in Mexico. Individual distance-dependent dbh growth models that quantify local neighborhood effects have been developed for four species groups in such forests. The performance of the models is improved by dis...