Dynamics in landscape structure and composition for the Chorotega region, Costa Rica from 1960 to 2000

Arroyo‐Mora, J. Pablo; Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G. Arturo; Rivard, Benoît; Calvo, Julio; Janzen, Daniel H.

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2004.07.002

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“…Forest recovery was less likely in areas of extremely low soil fertility although high fertility also led to low rates of reforestation. Previous studies have demonstrated that soils of high fertility are usually the last to be abandoned (Chinea 2002;Arroyo-Mora et al 2005). Additionally, in Puerto Rico most of these soils are in the coastal plains where land values are high (Lopez et al 2001;Martinuzzi et al 2007).…”

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“…In Puerto Rico, secondary forests that were former pastures have a faster recovery of soil carbon, one important measure of soil fertility, than former agricultural fields (Weaver et al 1987;Silver et al 2000). Therefore, forest recovery at the landscape scale may depend on an interaction between land use history and underlying soil fertility (Guariguata and Ostertag 2001;Arroyo-Mora et al 2005).…”

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Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

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Socioeconomic changes in many areas in the tropics have led to increasing urbanization, abandonment of agriculture, and forest re-growth. Although these patterns are well documented, few studies have examined the drivers leading to landscape-level forest recovery and the resulting spatial structure of secondary forests. Land cover transitions from agricultural lands to secondary forest in the island of Puerto Rico have been ongoing since the 1940s. This study is a glimpse into this landscape level trend from 1991 to 2000. First, we relied on Landsat images to characterize changes in the landscape structure for forest, urban, and agricultural land classes. We found that although forest cover has increased in this period, forest has become increasingly fragmented while the area of urban cover has spread faster and become more clustered. Second, we used logistic regression to assess the relationship between the transition to forest and 21 biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables. We found that the percentage of forest cover within a 100 m radius of a point, distance to primary roads and nature reserves, slope, and aspect are the most important predictors of forest recovery. The resulting model predicts the spatial pattern of forest recovery with

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Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

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“…The rate of recovery of Neotropical forests varies greatly, and there are stories of both successes (Arroyo-Mora et al 2005) and failures using passive restoration to restore both composition and structure Letcher and Chazdon 2009;Holl and Aide 2011). Norden et al (2009) showed in a Costa Rica chronosequence study that secondary forests were undergoing reassembly of canopy tree composition through the successful recruitment of seedlings, saplings, and young trees of mature forest species.…”

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Neotropical rainforest restoration: comparing passive, plantation and nucleation approaches

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“…Studies of temporal dynamics in temperate, open, and seminatural habitats have systematically addressed general patterns of area decrease and isolation increase resulting from habitat fragmentation (Adriaens et al, 2006;Helm et al, 2006;Lindborg and Eriksson, 2004), whereas little attention has been paid to the potential contribution of secondary habitat origins through time (but see Arroyo-Mora et al, 2004;Jacquemyn et al, 2003). Our study demonstrated that spatial changes in wet heathlands, poor fens and bogs spanning the last 250 years resulted from two processes acting jointly: destruction and origin of habitat patches.…”

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Historical landscape structure affects plant species richness in wet heathlands with complex landscape dynamics

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2010

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a b s t r a c tThe spatio-temporal dynamics of wet heathlands from two landscapes in high Ardenne (Belgium), as well as the consequences of such dynamics on plant communities were investigated. Past and present destruction and origin of habitat patches have resulted in a complex network of different aged habitat patches. Current specialist and generalist species richness were assessed in 59 patches and analyzed with respect to present and past patch spatial metrics (controlled for habitat quality). Current patch area affected specialist species richness and current patch connectivity influenced both specialist and generalist species richness. Thirteen of the 59 patches were historical patches, i.e. patches that have remained since the 1770s. In these historical patches, including past landscape structure in the analysis explained more of the variability in current species richness than the current landscape structure alone, suggesting the existence of an extinction debt.

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Dynamics in landscape structure and composition for the Chorotega region, Costa Rica from 1960 to 2000

Cited by 138 publications

References 19 publications

Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

Neotropical rainforest restoration: comparing passive, plantation and nucleation approaches

Historical landscape structure affects plant species richness in wet heathlands with complex landscape dynamics

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