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Pago de servicios ambientales: Logros y fracasos de un mecanismo de Mercado para detener la deforestación. El caso de Costa Rica (1996 a 2000)

open access: yesDiálogos, 2011
El Pago de Servicios Ambientales fue promulgado por ley en Costa Rica en 1996 para aprovechar la naciente propuesta internacional del mercado del carbono.
Rodolfo González Ulloa
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From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
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Strong Variation in Land‐Use Change Impacts on Tropical Avian Phylogenetic Diversity Between Ecoregions Highlights the Need to Sample Large Spatial Scales

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
Forest conversion for agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss in the tropics, but its impacts depend on how broadly they are measured. Using data from across Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, we examined how deforestation for cattle farming affects the evolutionary history of bird species.
Giovanny Pérez   +7 more
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Cambio de uso de suelo en el azolvamiento del embalse La Esperanza, Manabí-Ecuador

open access: yesRevista del Instituto de Investigación de la Facultad de Minas, Metalurgia y Ciencias Geográficas, 2016
La sustitución de bosques por otros usos ha incidido significativamente en el azolvamiento de los embalses. En esta investigación se utilizó información retrospectiva y prospectiva, con el cual se evaluó los cambios en el uso de suelo y la cantidad de ...
Francisco Velásquez   +3 more
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El rol de los bosques en la lucha contra el cambio climático

open access: yesRevista del CISEN, 2018
Se analiza el rol de los bosques en la lucha contra el cambio climático, para lograr el objetivo “deforestación cero”, a partir de los compromisos asumidos por los estados en el Acuerdo de París sobre el cambio climático, y así determinar el grado de ...
Claudia Roxana Zeman
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Cambio de uso del suelo en la cuenca del río Sabinal, Chiapas, México/Land-use change in the Sabinal river watershed, Chiapas, Mexico

open access: yesEcosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios, 2017
. Con el propósito de conocer que los factores promueven el cambio en la cobertura del suelo en la cuenca del río Sabinal, Chiapas, este trabajo analiza la relación entre mapas de cambio en la cobertura del suelo y estadísticas socioeconómicas.
Mercedes Concepción Gordillo-Ruiz   +1 more
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Análisis espaciotemporal de la deforestación en el campus mutile (2005-2023) usando Google Earth Engine

open access: yesRevista GICOS
Este estudio analiza la deforestación en el campus Mutile de la Universidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres entre 2005 y 2023, utilizando imágenes satelitales procesadas con Google Earth Engine (GEE).
Diego Camilo Martínez Martínez   +3 more
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High extinction risk of the endemic tree flora in a hyper‐diverse region of the Amazon

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 4, Page 998-1010, July 2025.
The rapid global loss of biodiversity, especially in the Neotropics, underscores the need to understand how deforestation impacts endemic plant species' extinction risk and conservation status. Due to limited ranges and habitat specialization, endemics are particularly Vulnerable.
Juan Ernesto Guevara‐Andino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rainforest Fragmentation Decreases the Robustness of Plant‐Frugivore Interaction Networks

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 57, Issue 4, July 2025.
Our study in northern Costa Rica found that larger forest fragments and greater forest cover boost frugivore species richness and strengthen the modularity and robustness of plant–frugivore networks, with three tanager species serving as key species. Consequently, conserving these species and maintaining larger, contiguous forest areas is essential for
David Becker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stimulating reciprocity: How human–plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 1151-1170, May 2025.
Abstract Human–plant relations shed light on forms of reciprocity in Indigenous territorial stewardship. This article shows how Cofán, Siona and Siekopai (also Secoya or Airo Pai in Peru) Indigenous Peoples in the western Amazon collect, cultivate and use yoco (Paullinia yoco) to promote communal conviviality, reclaim once‐threatened cultural practices
Joel E. Correia   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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