Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina
Land transformation is a major component of global change, directly altering habitat composition and spatial configuration, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Over the last decades, the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina has become one of the regions most heavily transformed worldwide...
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| author | Mosciaro, Maria Jesus Seghezzo, Lucas Texeira, Marcos Paruelo, José María Volante, Jose Norberto |
| author_browse | Mosciaro, Maria Jesus Paruelo, José María Seghezzo, Lucas Texeira, Marcos Volante, Jose Norberto |
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| description | Land transformation is a major component of global change, directly altering habitat composition and spatial configuration, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Over the last decades, the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina has become one of the regions most heavily transformed worldwide due to the expansion of its agricultural frontier. Many questions remain unanswered about how this process of change occurred. In this study, a parcel-scale database was used to assess the conversion of natural landscapes to different agroecosystems. The magnitude and direction of land use transitions during the last 20 years (2001–2019) were analyzed. Ranching is the main proximate cause of deforestation, accounting for more than 63% of the area cleared annually, though the land use expansion pattern has varied in space and time. Trajectories of land use transitions revealed a spatial arrangement where croplands have displaced ranching to drier areas. The analysis of the intensity of these transitions has shown that the trajectory of post-deforestation land use dynamics has followed a permanent systematic spatio-temporal pattern of change: (1) Dry Forest to Pastures; (2) Pastures to Single Crops; and (3) Single Cropping and Double Cropping systems, where processes of expansion, replacement, and intensification have been identified. Information on transition patterns has allowed us to develop a deeper understanding of land transformation processes, essential in the design of effective land use management strategies. |
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| spelling | INTA186022024-07-22T11:42:12Z Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina Mosciaro, Maria Jesus Seghezzo, Lucas Texeira, Marcos Paruelo, José María Volante, Jose Norberto Utilización de la Tierra Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Bosques Deforestación Argentina Land Use Land-use Change Forests Deforestation Región Chaco Semiárido Land transformation is a major component of global change, directly altering habitat composition and spatial configuration, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Over the last decades, the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina has become one of the regions most heavily transformed worldwide due to the expansion of its agricultural frontier. Many questions remain unanswered about how this process of change occurred. In this study, a parcel-scale database was used to assess the conversion of natural landscapes to different agroecosystems. The magnitude and direction of land use transitions during the last 20 years (2001–2019) were analyzed. Ranching is the main proximate cause of deforestation, accounting for more than 63% of the area cleared annually, though the land use expansion pattern has varied in space and time. Trajectories of land use transitions revealed a spatial arrangement where croplands have displaced ranching to drier areas. The analysis of the intensity of these transitions has shown that the trajectory of post-deforestation land use dynamics has followed a permanent systematic spatio-temporal pattern of change: (1) Dry Forest to Pastures; (2) Pastures to Single Crops; and (3) Single Cropping and Double Cropping systems, where processes of expansion, replacement, and intensification have been identified. Information on transition patterns has allowed us to develop a deeper understanding of land transformation processes, essential in the design of effective land use management strategies. EEA Salta Fil: Mosciaro, Maria Jesus. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina Fil: Seghezzo, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía No Convencional (INENCO); Argentina. Fil: Seghezzo, Lucas Universidad Nacional de Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía No Convencional (INENCO); Argentina Fil: Texeira, Marcos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina Fil: Texeira, Marcos. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina Fil: Paruelo, José María. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina Fil: Paruelo, José María. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina Fil: Paruelo, José María. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) Estación La Estanzuela; Uruguay Fil: Paruelo, José María. Universidad de la República. Facultad de Ciencias. IECA; Uruguay Fil: Volante, José Norberto. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina. 2024-07-22T11:39:16Z 2024-07-22T11:39:16Z 2023-06 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/18602 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723001163 0264-8377 1873-5754 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106650 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 Elsevier Land Use Policy 129 : 106650. (June 2023) |
| spellingShingle | Utilización de la Tierra Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Bosques Deforestación Argentina Land Use Land-use Change Forests Deforestation Región Chaco Semiárido Mosciaro, Maria Jesus Seghezzo, Lucas Texeira, Marcos Paruelo, José María Volante, Jose Norberto Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title | Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title_full | Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title_short | Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina |
| title_sort | where did the forest go post deforestation land use dynamics in the dry chaco region in northwestern argentina |
| topic | Utilización de la Tierra Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Bosques Deforestación Argentina Land Use Land-use Change Forests Deforestation Región Chaco Semiárido |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/18602 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723001163 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106650 |
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