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January 2005 - February 2016
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The lack of soil data is a complication that most soil scientists will encounter throughout their career; this critical aspect is exacerbated due to the excessive cost of soil surveying. Consequently, it is essential to develop strategies that guarantee the permanent accessibility of past soil sampling efforts. The main objective of this contributi...
Las carreteras tienen una amplia variedad de efectos negativos sobre distintos grupos de organismos. El conocimiento existente se concentra en países con ecosistemas extra tropicales. Esta revisión sistemática de la literatura con metaanálisis para el neotrópico busca evaluar el efecto del aforo vehicular y la distancia a poblados en el atropellami...
Water availability strongly influences the ecology of terrestrial birds and mammals. It will likely play an increasing role as a limiting factor as climate change and human demand make water availability scarcer. However, we lack a knowledge synthesis describing our current understanding of the use of water sources, particularly for wildlife hydrat...
Including biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) spatial priorities in reserve design through quantitative methods known as systematic conservation planning has been proposed to identify spatial solutions that achieve both elements in a spatially efficient manner. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differences between priority sites for bio...
Bats provide important ecosystem services for agriculture, such as pest control, a function that is particularly relevant for small-scale farmers. However, climate change is causing a decrease in bat populations. To assess the potential impacts of climate change on insectivorous bats and the implications on small-scale farming of indigenous communi...
Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of global biodiversity loss, endangering natural habitats and ecosystem functions, such as pollination. In this study, we analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of avocado frontier expansion and intensification from 2011 to 2019 and assess their effects on landscape connectivity, focusing on...
The global water crisis affects water quality and aquatic ecosystems leading to shifts in the structure of microbial community that can be used for monitoring environmental change. The current study aims to use eDNA metabarcoding to elucidate the structure and diversity of microbial communities along a pollution gradient in a tropical river. Sampli...
Water is a defining element for cities and their inhabitants. Throughout urban systems, water is either produced or received, used, and finally disposed of as wastewater. As Latin American urbanization accelerates, problems related to wastewater are increasing due to its inclusion as the main source of river pollution, as well as the high
cost of i...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the DNA that can be extracted from an environmental sample, enabling the monitoring of whole biological communities across a large number of samples, at a potentially lower cost, which can significantly benefit river conservation. A systematic mapping protocol was designed to investigate the use
of eDNA in rivers, specif...
The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, has underscored the risk posed by viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms to public health, the environment, and global economy. This situation has raised growing concerns about the spread of these pathogens, especially in densely populated areas. Environmental surveillance has regained its rol...
Ecosystems are highly valuable as a source of goods and services and as a heritage for future generations. Knowing their condition is extremely important for all management and conservation activities and public policies. Until now, the evaluation of ecosystem condition has been unsatisfactory and thus lacks practical implementation for most countr...
Water availability significantly influences bird and mammal ecology in terrestrial ecosystems. However, our understanding of the role of water as a limiting resource for birds and mammals remains partial because most of the studies have focused on surface water bodies in desert and semi-desert ecosystems. This study assessed the use of two types of...
Revista Trimestral sobre la Actualidad Ambiental 4 Los artículos publicados se distribuyen bajo una licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento al autor-No comercial-Compartir igual 4.0 Internacional (CC BY NC SA 4.0 Internacional) basada en una obra en http://www.ambientico.una.ac.cr, lo que implica la posibilidad de que los lectores puedan de forma...
La falta de datos sobre calidad hídrica
en México, recalca la necesidad de implementar
tecnologías nuevas para mejorar el monitoreo en
cuerpos de agua. Un enfoque usado recientemente
y prometedor en los monitoreos, es el uso del ADN
ambiental, caracterizado por analizar una mezcla
de material genético, inmersa en una matriz
ambiental. Este tipo de...
La falta de datos sobre calidad hídrica en México, recalca la necesidad de implementar tecnologías nuevas para mejorar el monitoreo en cuerpos de agua. Un enfoque usado recientemente y prometedor en los monitoreos, es el uso del ADN ambiental, caracterizado por analizar una mezcla de material genético, inmersa en una matriz ambiental. Aplicar esta...
Monitoring of water bodies provides information about a particular site and its changes across time, as well as the effects of different impacts on biodiversity, which is essential to support management of freshwater environments. These assessments use physicochemical characterization and sometimes bioindicators. However, current approaches are dep...
Combining well-established non-equilibrium thermodynamic principles and a system dynamics approach, we define, for the first time, the concept of planetary antifragility as changes of Fisher information of Earth's entropy production. As a first approximation for entropy production, we propose using shortwave global albedo anomalies and provide a fi...
Tropical agricultural frontiers are rapidly changing and present unique opportunities to reconcile ecosystem services (ES) provision, biodiversity conservation, and livelihood maintenance of rural communities. To understand the dynamics of these frontiers, we analyzed preferences, reasons associated with importance, and spatial perceptions of ES an...
The map represents the spatial distribution of benthic habitats in shallow waters of the Mexican Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, in an area of 1001 km2, with an average maximum depth of 18 m. The resulting map defined 50 classes generated from the union of benthic cover and submarine relief maps, estimated from the pr...
Ecosystem monitoring is a key priority for evaluating ecosystem conditions, but high costs, especially with regard to marine
ecosystems, hamper its large-scale implementation. Despite a wide range of monitoring programs for tropical coral reefs,
it has not been possible to establish a minimum set of the most relevant metrics. This leads to hetero...
For Mexican temperate forests (MTFs), understood as mountain forest ecosystems formed by pine, oak and fir forests, the water-forest-nexus is unknown. Because of their range of climatic, topographic, and overall ecological particularities, estimates for other temperate forests may not be transferred. A systematic literature review has been carried...
Great attention has been drawn to the impacts of habitat deforestation and fragmentation on wildlife species richness. In contrast, much less attention has been paid to assessing the impacts of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on wildlife species composition and behaviour. We focused on natural small rock pools (sartenejas), which concentrate vert...
This dataset (in Excel format) represents in-situ information on the percentage of benthic cover collected at 714 stations. Seven field campaigns were conducted (2010-2016), in shallow waters (up to 25 m depth) along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, as part of the Mesoamerican Reef System. The biotopes of r...
This collection integrates data from the project "Spatial distribution of benthic habitats in shallow water marine ecosystems of the Mexican Caribbean using WorldView-2 (ArrecifeSAM) satellite images (2010-2018)". The study area covers the shallow waters of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, as part of the Mesoamerican Re...
The Safe Operating Space for Humanity is not fully characterized by the state values of Planetary Boundaries because not only does interaction among them matter, but more importantly the perturbation response capacity dimension is missing. We present a systems dynamics measure of this perturbation response capacity under the Antifragility framework...
La pandemia provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 evidenció fallas estructurales relacionadas con la disponibilidad de agua en México. Ante este escenario, resalta la importancia de emprender acciones para la conservación de los recursos hídricos, la prevención de enfermedades y futuras pandemias. Se estima urgente abordar la seguridad hídrica del país...
Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
IPBES) have highlighted the risks to humanity arising from the unsustainable use of natural resources. Thus far, land, freshwater, and ocean exploitation have been the chief caus...
In many countries of the Global South, aquatic ecosystems such as streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands are severely impacted by several simultaneous environmental stressors, associated with accelerated urban development, and extreme climate. However, this problem receives little attention. Applying a DPSIR approach (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impac...
Systematic conservation planning provides a framework to identify representative areas of biodiversity, but its effectiveness depends on the choice of surrogates and targets. Mexico has conducted participatory and comprehensive gap analyses. We present the results of two independent surrogate assessments to test the criteria used in Mexico's spatia...
This document contains the draft of Chapter 4 of the IPBES Global Assessment on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Chapter 4 focuses on scenarios and models that explore the impacts of a wide range of
plausible future changes in social, economic and institutional drivers on Nature, Nature's
Contributions to People and Good Quality of Life.
We conducted a systematic literature review to identify and analyze research linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and their beneficiaries in tropical dry forests of Latin America. By assessing 71 studies published in the last 20 years, we addressed two questions: i) when research on links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and beneficiari...
We conducted a systematic literature review to identify and analyze research linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and their beneficiaries in tropical dry forests of Latin America. By assessing 71 studies published in the last 20 years, we addressed two questions: i) when research on links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and beneficiari...
Climate change and land-use change are two major drivers of vegetation change causing habitat and biodiversity loss and posing a threat to the sustained provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. Following-up on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Sustainable Development Goals have been a fresh stimulus to the current interest in ecosystem...
Los bosques templados de México representan la distribución más sur de este ecosistema en el hemisferio norte y constituyen alrededor de 20% de la cobertura forestal de México, lo que los hace la clase de bosques más ampliamente distribuida. No obstante la importancia de su extensión geográfica es el tipo de vegetación menos estudiado desde el punt...
Natural ecosystems are expected to reduce the damaging effects of extreme hydrometeorological effects. We tested this prediction for Mexico by performing regression models, with two dependent variables: the occurrence of deaths and economic damages, at a state and municipality levels. For each location, the explanatory variables were the Mexican so...
The study presents three scenarios of land use and cover change (LUCC), the most important factor for environmental degradation in southern Mexico. We developed story lines and quantitative projections for regional scenarios based on historic LUCC processes, environmental policies, socioeconomic drivers, stakeholder consultations and official plann...
Marine reserves are widely used to protect species important for conservation and fisheries and to help maintain ecological processes that sustain their populations, including recruitment and dispersal. Achieving these goals requires well-connected networks of marine reserves that maximize larval connectivity, thus allowing exchanges between popula...
The rapid loss of forests with negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services has drawn the attention of scientists and decision makers to deforestation and land use change. Over the last two decades, a broad range of models of land use and cover change (LUCC) have been developed to assist in land management and to better understand,...
Los bosques templados de México representan la distribución más sur de este ecosistema en el hemisferio norte y constituyen alrededor de 20% de la cobertura forestal de México, lo que los hace la clase de bosques más ampliamente distribuida. No obstante la importancia de su extensión geográfica es el tipo de vegetación menos estudiado desde el punt...
Marine reserves are widely used to protect species important for conservation and fisheries and to help maintain ecological processes that sustain their populations, including recruitment and dispersal. Achieving these goals requires well-connected networks of marine reserves that maximize larval connectivity, thus allowing exchanges between popula...
The enormous global burden of vector-borne diseases disproportionately affects poor people in tropical, developing countries. Changes in vector-borne disease impacts are often linked to human modification of ecosystems as well as climate change. For tropical ecosystems, the health impacts of future environmental and developmental policy depend on h...
Predicted future extent of leishmaniasis under alternative climate pathways and socio-economic pathways.
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Trajectory of changes in climate and land use under alternative future socio-economic pathways, climate change pathways and policies.
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Predicted distributions of leishmaniases when mammal richness is included or excluded from models.
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Impact of correcting for recording bias on models of leishmaniasis distribution.
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Environmental predictors of leishmaniasis distribution.
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El ciclo del agua se relaciona con múltiples procesos de otros sistemas, tanto naturales (geología, biología, atmósfera), como sociales (agricultura, industria, consumo directo). El agua está inexorablemente ligada al funcionamiento de los ecosistemas, la seguridad alimentaria, la salud y el bienestar de la humanidad, sin embargo, el crecimiento de...
Climate change and land-use change are two major drivers of biome shifts causing habitat and biodiversity loss. What is missing is a continental-scale future projection of the estimated relative impacts of both drivers on biome shifts over the course of this century. Here, we provide such a projection for the biodiverse region of Latin America unde...
Integridad ecológica para la gestión de la sustentabilidad ambiental frente al cambio climático Resumen
El concepto de integridad ecológica ha figurado de distintas maneras como concepto central en la interface que vincula la ecología y la definición de políticas públicas. Es un elemento articulador de la evolución que transita de la ecología sens...
Freshwater ecosystems are key to maintaining biological diversity and for human well-being. Despite their importance , these ecosystems have suffered severe transformations due to anthropogenic activity. Here we present the first priority assessment of freshwater ecosystems in Mexico at the national scale. Because species' composi-tional and hydrol...
Using publicly available data on land use and transportation corridors we calculated the human footprint index for the whole of Mexico to identify large-scale spatial patterns in the anthropogenic transformation of the land surface. We developed a map of the human footprint for the whole country and identified the ecological regions that have most...
Using publicly available data on land use and transportation corridors we calculated the
human footprint index for the whole of Mexico to identify large-scale spatial patterns in the
anthropogenic transformation of the land surface.We developed a map of the human footprint
for the whole country and identified the ecological regions that have most t...
Climate change could have major impacts on ecosystems and their capacity to generate benefits to society, or so-called ecosystem services. The importance of different tropical landscape, that include forests, shrubland, grassland and crops, for mitigating global climate change is widely recognized. In spite of broad research on ecosystem services f...
Resumen. El desarrollo sustentable requiere preservar la estructura y el funcionamiento
de los ecosistemas naturales, es decir su integridad. En este capítulo mostramos
que es posible desarrollar instrumentos operativos para cuantificar la “integridad
ecológica” y desarrollar normas viables para gestionar la intervención humana en los
ecosistemas y...
Climate change could have major impacts on ecosystems and their regulation capacity of vector-borne
diseases, especially in combination with other human impacts that alter ecological integrity.
Leishmaniases are zoonotic diseases with about 2 million new cases each year worldwide. In the
Americas they are present from southern USA to Argentina....
Ecosystems envelop a wide array of processes; they are the arena where biodiversity is produced and
developed. They are governed by the interlinked effects of many factors as well as randomness. Since
the factors influencing these processes can only be partially observed, modeling aimed at decision
support needs to capture these uncertainties. B...
Having recently proclaimed the advent of the anthropocene, we see rapid changes in the earths
ecosystems. However and in spite of various international efforts to formulate binding policies to protect
biodiversity or mitigate climate change, little is known about the interactions and linkages within
ecosystems, for instance biodiversity and ecos...
Abstract Land use/cover change (LUCC), as an important factor in global change, is a topic that has recently received considerable attention in the prospective modeling domain. There are many approaches and software packages for modeling LUCC, many of them are empirical approaches based on past LUCC such as CLUE-S, DINAMICA EGO, CA_MARKOV and Land...
Understanding and analysis of drivers of land-use and -cover change (LUCC) is a requi-
site to reduce and manage impacts and consequences of LUCC. The aim of the present
study is to analyze drivers of LUCC in Southern Mexico and to see how these are
used by different conceptual and methodological approaches for generating transition
potential maps...
This study explores how to use techniques of prospective analysis in order to incorporate dynamic factors that put into risk the persistence of biodiversity into systematic conservation planning. Land use and cover change (LUCC) and climate change (CC) represent the main impacts and future threats to biodiversity and thus were the subject of analys...
We applied remote sensing techniques using WorldView-2 images with high spatial resolution and field verification to map the bathymetry and benthic habitats of the Puerto Morelos Reef National Park in the Mexican Caribbean. These images were processed using the standardized physics-based data processing of EOMAP´s Modular Inversion and Processing S...
We applied remote sensing techniques using WorldView-2 images with high spatial resolution and field verification to map the bathymetry and benthic habitats of the Puerto Morelos Reef National Park in the Mexican Caribbean. These images were processed using the standardized physics-based data processing of EOMAP´s Modular Inversion and Processing S...
In the Neotropics increased rates of land use and land cover change (LULCC) and a strong deforestation trend in the second half of the twentieth century have caused environmental degra-dation and biodiversity loss. This study analysed patterns and processes of LULCC and deforestation for the Grijalva–Usumacinta watershed, one of the hydrologically...
As any definition choice would, this official definition (the FAO definition of forest) leads to a number of challenges for consistent forest monitoring worldwide. For instance, a minimum area of 0.05 – 1.0 ha implies that deforestation (understood officially as the 'direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non forested land', UNFCCC, Ma...
Durant les dernieres decennies, une variete de modeles ont ete developpes pour simuler les changements futurs des modes d'occupation et d'usage des sols. Dans cette etude, nous avons compare quatre logiciels de modelisation : CLUE-S, DINAMICA EGO, CA_Markov et Land Change Modeler. Nous avons examine les differentes methodes et outils disponibles da...
Land use/cover changes (LUCC) are significant to a range of issues central to the study of global environmental change and have thus have received growing attention by decision makers and scientists. Over the last decades, a range of models of LUCC have been developed to meet land management needs, and to better understand, assess and project the f...
En las dos últimas décadas se han desarrollado planteamientos sistemáticos con el
fin de identifica r objetivament e área s prioritaria s par a implementa r instrumentos
de conservación in situ, y así maximizar la distribución y el manejo de los escasos
recursos que se destinan a la conservación de la biodiversidad. El propósito del pre-
sente t...
Las siete grandes ecorregiones que se han reconocido para México en el territorio
continental (Grandes planicies, Desiertos de América del Norte, California medite-
rránea, Elevaciones semiáridas meridionales, Sierras templadas, Selvas cálido-secas
y Selvas cálido-húmedas), albergan una gran diversidad de ambientes, paisajes y co-
munidades única...
La excepcional biodiversidad que alberga México obliga a una planeación a diferentes escalas para conservar una porción significativa de ella. A raíz del compromiso establecido en la Séptima Conferencia de las Partes (Cop 7) del cdb, en el Programa de Trabajo de Áreas Protegidas se identificaron sitios prioritarios para diferentes elementos de la d...
In this paper we aim to investigate the problems and potentialities of species distribution modeling (SDM) as a tool for conservation planning and policy development and implementation in tropical regions. We reviewed 123 studies published between 1995 and 2007 in five of the leading journals in ecology and conservation, and examined two tropical c...
Hurricane Mitch is considered as one of the strongest Atlantic storms of the past century. Due to its extraordinary quasi-stationary position over three days (27.10. by 29.10.1998) offshore between the northern coast of Honduras and the Island of Guanaja, this area was struck most violently. The study deals with the degree of destruction, the impac...
www.ine.gob.mx/descargas/cuencas/cong_nal_06/tema_03/33_veronica_aguilar.pdf
Para generar una visión actualizada, con criterios robustos y técnicos, sobre los vacíos y omisiones
en conservación de las áreas protegidas de México, la Conabio y la Conanp, en colaboración con
numerosas instituciones y especialistas, conformaron un grupo de trabajo con el objeto de llevar a cabo
esta evaluación. Con esto, México da cumplimiento...
