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Watershed Deforestation and Down-Estuary Transformations Alter Sources, Transport, and Export of Suspended Particles in Panamanian Mangrove Estuaries
(Springer, 2014-01)
We identified eight Panamanian watersheds in which conversion from wet tropical forest to pastures differed and assessed the effects of degree of deforestation, and down-estuary transformations, on the suspended particulate ...
Implications of rural-urban migration for conservation of the atlantic forest and Urban growth in Misiones, Argentina (1970-2030)
(Royal Swedish Acad Sciences, 2011-05)
Abstract Global trends of increasing rural-urban migration and population urbanization could provide opportunities for nature conservation, particularly in regions where deforestation is driven by subsistence agriculture. ...
Spatial patterns of mammal occurrence in forest strips surrounded by agricultural crops of the Chaco region, Argentina
(Elsevier, 2015-07)
Deforestation is a major cause of biodiversity loss, and the predominant factor driving deforestation is expansion of agriculture. A key step toward successful conservation in agricultural areas is maximizing biodiversity ...
Ecosystem functional changes associated with land clearing in NW Argentina
(Elsevier Science, 2012-07)
We assessed the extension of natural habitat conversion into croplands and grazing lands in subtropical NW Argentina and its impact on two key ecosystem functional attributes. We quantified changes in remotely sensed ...
Between the global commodity boom and subnational state capacities: payment for environmental services to fight deforestation in Argentina
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020-02)
Does subnational state capacity stop deforestation? The commodity boom of the 2000s significantly expanded the agriculture frontier in most provinces of Argentina, with devastating effects on native forests. Interestingly, ...
Determinants of the spatial distribution of cultivated land in the North Argentine Dry Chaco in a multi-decadal study
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2015-12)
Deforestation in the Northern Argentine Dry Chaco (NADC) has been mainly driven by soybean expansion and, more recently, by the expansion of implanted pastures. In areas with fast land use transformations, it is important ...
Globalization and soybean expansion into semiarid ecosystems of Argentina
(Royal Swedish Acad Sciences, 2005-12)
Deforestation is the product of complex interaction among local idiosyncratic properties of natural and social systems and driving forces that commonly operate at large spatial scales (1). Social and economic globalization, ...
Native Forests and Agriculture in Salta (Argentina) : conflicting visions of development
(SAGE Publishing, 2011-09)
Despite much deforestation in the past, the northwestern Argentinean province of Salta still has more than 6 million hectares of native forests. Land use conversion for agriculture is threatening these forests and the ...
Agricultural expansion in the Semiarid Chaco: poorly selectivecontagious advance
(Elsevier, 2016-09)
Clearance for agriculture or cattle ranching was the dominant land-cover change during the last two decades in the South American Dry Chaco. The Argentinean portion has been particularly affected, presenting greater ...
Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people
(National Academy of Sciences, 2021-11-02)
Agricultural expansion into subtropical and tropical forests causes major environmental damage, but its wider social impacts often remain hidden. Forest-dependent smallholders are particularly strongly impacted, as they ...