La restauraci&amp;oacute;n de ecosistemas terrestres en M&amp;eacute;xico: Estado actual, necesidades y oportunidades

Méndez‐Toribio, Moisés; Martínez‐Garza, Cristina; Ceccon, Eliane; Guariguata, Manuel R.

doi:10.17528/cifor/006853

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“…As similar land management datasets emerge from other regions, we anticipate increasing potential to integrate anthropogenic factors into SDMs. For example, Mexico's National Plan for Ecosystem Restoration parallels many regional-scale restoration plans in Latin America (Tobon et al, 2017), and includes extensive documentation of the restoration activities undertaken (Méndez-Toribio, Martínez-Garza, Ceccon, & Guariguata, 2018). While cadastral data (mapped property boundaries) may not include direct information on land management, these data provide opportunities to infer how landholder decisions may alter natural dynamics (Tarbox et al, 2018).…”

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Integrating anthropogenic factors into regional‐scale species distribution models—A novel application in the imperiled sagebrush biome

Requena‐Mullor

Maguire

Shinneman

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Global Change Biology

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Species distribution models (SDMs) that rely on regional‐scale environmental variables will play a key role in forecasting species occurrence in the face of climate change. However, in the Anthropocene, a number of local‐scale anthropogenic variables, including wildfire history, land‐use change, invasive species, and ecological restoration practices can override regional‐scale variables to drive patterns of species distribution. Incorporating these human‐induced factors into SDMs remains a major research challenge, in part because spatial variability in these factors occurs at fine scales, rendering prediction over regional extents problematic. Here, we used big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) as a model species to explore whether including human‐induced factors improves the fit of the SDM. We applied a Bayesian hurdle spatial approach using 21,753 data points of field‐sampled vegetation obtained from the LANDFIRE program to model sagebrush occurrence and cover by incorporating fire history metrics and restoration treatments from 1980 to 2015 throughout the Great Basin of North America. Models including fire attributes and restoration treatments performed better than those including only climate and topographic variables. Number of fires and fire occurrence had the strongest relative effects on big sagebrush occurrence and cover, respectively. The models predicted that the probability of big sagebrush occurrence decreases by 1.2% (95% CI: −6.9%, 0.6%) when one fire occurs and cover decreases by 44.7% (95% CI: −47.9%, −41.3%) if at least one fire occurred over the 36 year period of record. Restoration practices increased the probability of big sagebrush occurrence but had minimal effect on cover. Our results demonstrate the potential value of including disturbance and land management along with climate in models to predict species distributions. As an increasing number of datasets representing land‐use history become available, we anticipate that our modeling framework will have broad relevance across a range of biomes and species.

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Integrating anthropogenic factors into regional‐scale species distribution models—A novel application in the imperiled sagebrush biome

Requena‐Mullor

Maguire

Shinneman

et al. 2019

Global Change Biology

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The challenge of participatory restoration in rural areas

Moreno‐Casasola

2022

Bot. Sci.

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Restoration is a prominent field of research and of restoration projects that seek to recover degraded and dysfunctional ecosystems and the services they provide. Humanity’s environmental crisis has increased awareness of the urgent need to conserve ecosystems and their biodiversity. Many countries and international organizations have set ambitious plans and restoration targets. This paper emphasizes on current themes such as landscape restoration, invasive species, novel ecosystems, and the necessary involvement of local communities in ecological restoration. It is focused mainly on tropical forest ecosystems. Another aim of this paper is a review of the results obtained in diverse restoration practices that concentrate on inducing secondary succession processes in tropical forests. It draws heavily on case studies from Mexico. Members of society should play an active role in restoration planning and implementation. Social participation is central to the success and sustainability of restoration projects. Traditional ecological knowledge is essential in many projects, and there should be careful consideration of the ethics involved. In the coming years, we will probably see a surge in the unassisted revegetation and reforestation of many abandoned rural areas making the understanding and managing of these restoration processes necessary and crucial. Finally, a set of guidelines that view restoration as a long-term social and ecological process is given.

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