Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina
The degradation of wetlands is a worrying phenomenon, given its ecosystemic importance due to the provision of environmental services. In Argentina, the process of wetland degradation is fast and almost unknown due to the lack of control and monitoring. Malezales grasslands are wetland ecosystems, i...
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| author | Pereira, Luís Flávio Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo Fernandes Filho, Elpídio Inácio |
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| author_facet | Pereira, Luís Flávio Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo Fernandes Filho, Elpídio Inácio |
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| description | The degradation of wetlands is a worrying phenomenon, given its ecosystemic importance due to the provision of environmental services. In Argentina, the process of wetland degradation is fast and almost unknown due to the lack of control and monitoring. Malezales grasslands are wetland ecosystems, indeed poorly studied and endemic of Argentina's northeast. This study aimed to understand the impacts of policy-driven forestry expansion in wetlands, searching for tools and patterns to plan sustainable afforestation. Geographic information systems and remote sensing-based models were used to produce and analyze historical data of the forestry expansion and malezales degradation on inceptsols located in northeastern Corrientes, Argentina. The results showed that the region experienced extensive forestry expansion over the last 20 years. Pinus spp. plantations expanded on the most degraded malezales, which suggests some sustainability in the expansion process. However, the remaining malezales present current worrying levels of degradation. The intensification of the degradation process is imminent because livestock pressure on malezales has been intensified after the loss of areas due to the forestry increasing. We present a preliminary zoning of areas for conservation or forestry expansion in malezales. We found that 40.2% (47571 ha) of the current area of malezales could be used for forestry expansion, while 59.81% (about 70793 ha, 41.56% of the original ecosystem) is of priority for conservation or protection actions. A complete zoning of malezales is recommended, and policies to foment the correct management of malezales and forestry should therefore be implemented. |
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| spelling | INTA157162023-10-27T13:15:40Z Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina Pereira, Luís Flávio Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo Fernandes Filho, Elpídio Inácio Tierras Húmedas Bosques Ganado Bovino Teledetección Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Argentina Wetlands Forests Cattle Remote Sensing Land Use Change Forestry Policies Política Forestal Humedales The degradation of wetlands is a worrying phenomenon, given its ecosystemic importance due to the provision of environmental services. In Argentina, the process of wetland degradation is fast and almost unknown due to the lack of control and monitoring. Malezales grasslands are wetland ecosystems, indeed poorly studied and endemic of Argentina's northeast. This study aimed to understand the impacts of policy-driven forestry expansion in wetlands, searching for tools and patterns to plan sustainable afforestation. Geographic information systems and remote sensing-based models were used to produce and analyze historical data of the forestry expansion and malezales degradation on inceptsols located in northeastern Corrientes, Argentina. The results showed that the region experienced extensive forestry expansion over the last 20 years. Pinus spp. plantations expanded on the most degraded malezales, which suggests some sustainability in the expansion process. However, the remaining malezales present current worrying levels of degradation. The intensification of the degradation process is imminent because livestock pressure on malezales has been intensified after the loss of areas due to the forestry increasing. We present a preliminary zoning of areas for conservation or forestry expansion in malezales. We found that 40.2% (47571 ha) of the current area of malezales could be used for forestry expansion, while 59.81% (about 70793 ha, 41.56% of the original ecosystem) is of priority for conservation or protection actions. A complete zoning of malezales is recommended, and policies to foment the correct management of malezales and forestry should therefore be implemented. EEA Corrientes Fil: Pereira, Luís Flávio. Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Departamento de Solos; Brasil Fil: Pereira, Luís Flávio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Corrientes; Argentina. Fil: Pereira, Luís Flávio. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Corrientes; Argentina. Fil: Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Fernandes Filho, Elpídio Inácio. Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Departamento de Solos; Brasil 2023-10-27T13:08:27Z 2023-10-27T13:08:27Z 2023-12 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/15716 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1617138123001759 1618-1093 1617-1381 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126504 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Argentina .......... (nation) (World, South America) 7006477 Elsevier Journal for Nature Conservation 76 : 126504. (December 2023) |
| spellingShingle | Tierras Húmedas Bosques Ganado Bovino Teledetección Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Argentina Wetlands Forests Cattle Remote Sensing Land Use Change Forestry Policies Política Forestal Humedales Pereira, Luís Flávio Kurtz, Ditmar Bernardo Fernandes Filho, Elpídio Inácio Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title | Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title_full | Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title_short | Forestry feedbacks in Malezales’ degradation: Insights from past to plan future policy-driven forestry expansion over wetlands in Argentina |
| title_sort | forestry feedbacks in malezales degradation insights from past to plan future policy driven forestry expansion over wetlands in argentina |
| topic | Tierras Húmedas Bosques Ganado Bovino Teledetección Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Argentina Wetlands Forests Cattle Remote Sensing Land Use Change Forestry Policies Política Forestal Humedales |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/15716 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1617138123001759 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126504 |
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