MODERNIZATION-DRIVEN LAND USE REDISTRIBUTION, AND LAND USE EFFICIENCY

GRAU, HR; NANNI, S

Beijing

Congreso; Global Land Programme, Open Science Meeting; 2016

Global Land Programma - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Land use and land cover changes in Latin America include both intensive agriculture expansion in the lowlands and reforestation in steep areas. Thus, reforestation and deforestation occur, in general, at different ecological zones. The consequences of such redistribution of forests over ecosystem services and biodiversity are complex, and cannot be simply assessed by evaluating net cover change. We analyzed 20 years of land cover change in a 280000 ha watershed from northwest Argentina, and its consequences over forests carbon sequestration, food production, soil retention and the diversity of large mammals and birds. Net forest change was