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DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0121203
The Human Footprint in Mexico: Physical Geography and Historical Legacies
Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte1; Ezcurra, Exequiel2; Garcillan, Pedro P.1; Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo1; Kolb, Melanie3; Bezaury Creel, Juan E.4
通讯作者Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte
来源期刊PLOS ONE
ISSN1932-6203
出版年2015
卷号10期号:3
英文摘要

Using publicly available data on land use and transportation corridors we calculated the human footprint index for the whole of Mexico to identify large-scale spatial patterns in the anthropogenic transformation of the land surface. We developed a map of the human footprint for the whole country and identified the ecological regions that have most transformed by human action. Additionally, we analyzed the extent to which (a) physical geography, expressed spatially in the form of biomes and ecoregions, compared to (b) historical geography, expressed as the spatial distribution of past human settlements, have driven the patterns of human modification of the land. Overall Mexico still has 56% of its land surface with low impact from human activities, but these areas are not evenly distributed. The lowest values are on the arid north and northwest, and the tropical southeast, while the highest values run along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and from there inland along an east-to-west corridor that follows the Mexican transversal volcanic ranges and the associated upland plateau. The distribution of low-and high footprint areas within ecoregions forms a complex mosaic: the generally well-conserved Mexican deserts have some highly transformed agro-industrial areas, while many well-conserved, low footprint areas still persist in the highly-transformed ecoregions of central Mexico. We conclude that the spatial spread of the human footprint in Mexico is both the result of the limitations imposed by physical geography to human development at the biome level, and, within different biomes, of a complex history of past civilizations and technologies, including the 20th Century demographic explosion but also the spatial pattern of ancient settlements that were occupied by the Spanish Colony.


类型Article
语种英语
国家Mexico ; USA
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号WOS:000353889600137
WOS关键词LAND-USE ; ANTHROPOGENIC TRANSFORMATION ; POPULATION ; LANDSCAPE ; SETTLEMENT ; SOCONUSCO ; HABITAT ; CHIAPAS ; AREA
WOS类目Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/189746
作者单位1.Ctr Invest Biol Noroeste, Programa Planeac Ambiental & Conservac, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico;
2.Univ Calif Riverside, Inst Mexico & US, Riverside, CA USA;
3.Comis Nacl Conocimiento & Uso Biodiversidad, Mexico City, DF, Mexico;
4.Nature Conservancy, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte,Ezcurra, Exequiel,Garcillan, Pedro P.,et al. The Human Footprint in Mexico: Physical Geography and Historical Legacies[J],2015,10(3).
APA Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte,Ezcurra, Exequiel,Garcillan, Pedro P.,Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo,Kolb, Melanie,&Bezaury Creel, Juan E..(2015).The Human Footprint in Mexico: Physical Geography and Historical Legacies.PLOS ONE,10(3).
MLA Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte,et al."The Human Footprint in Mexico: Physical Geography and Historical Legacies".PLOS ONE 10.3(2015).
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