Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?

Autores
Rosas, Yamina Micaela; Peri, Pablo Luis; Pidgeon, Anna Michle; Politi, Natalia; Pedrana, Julieta; Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo; Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José
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2021
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Understanding human influence on ecosystems and their services is crucial to achieve sustainable development and ensure the conservation of biodiversity. In this context, the human footprint index (HFI) represents the anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and the natural environment. Our objective was to characterize the HFI in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) across the landscape, qualifying the differences among the main ecological areas and especially the forested landscapes. We also assessed the potential utility of HFI to identify priority conservation areas according to their wilderness quality and potential biodiversity values. We created a HFI map (scores varied from 0 representing high wilderness quality to 1 representing maximum human impact) using variables related to direct (e.g. infrastructure) and indirect (e.g. derived from economic activities) human impacts, including settlements, accessibility, oil industry, and sheep production. HFI varied significantly across the natural landscapes, being lower (0.07−0.11) in remote ecosystems close to the Andes Mountains and higher (0.38−0.40) in southern areas close to the provincial capital city. Forested landscapes presented different impact values, which were directly related to the economical values of the different forest types. We determined that the current protected area network is not equally distributed across the different ecological areas and forest types. Priority conservation areas were also identified using the fragmentation produced by the human impact, the patch size, and the potential biodiversity values. HFI can present high compatibility with other land-use management decision making tools, acting as a complement to the existing tools for conservation planning or management.
EEA SANTA CRUZ
Filiación: Fil: Rosas, Yamina M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC); Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA). Santa Cruz; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Argentina.
Fil: Pidgeon, Anna Michle. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. SILVIS Lab. Madison, WI; USA.
Fil: Politi, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Jujuy; Argentina.
Fil: Politi, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Jujuy; Argentina.
Fil: Pedrana, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Balcarce, Buenos Aires; Argentina.
Fil: Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Laboratorio de SIG y Teledetección; Sevilla, Spain.
Filiación: Fil: Martínez Pastur, Guillermo J. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego; Argentina.
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Journal for nature conservation 59 : 125946. (2021)
Materia
Nature Conservation
Wilderness Areas
Forest Land
Impact Assessment
Anthropogenic Changes
Preservation
Land Use Planning
Decision Making
Sustainable Development
Santa Cruz (Argentina)
Impacto Humano
Áreas Silvestres
Conservación de la Naturaleza
Tierras Forestales
Evaluación del Impacto
Escala de Paisaje
Servicios Ecosistémicos
Desarrollo Sustentable
Índice de Huella Humana
Biodiversidad Potencial
Áreas de Conservación
Planificación del Uso de la Tierra
Decisiones Políticas
Región Patagónica
Ecosistem Services
Human Footprint Index
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spelling Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?Rosas, Yamina MicaelaPeri, Pablo LuisPidgeon, Anna MichlePoliti, NataliaPedrana, JulietaDíaz-Delgado, RicardoMartinez Pastur, Guillermo JoséNature ConservationWilderness AreasForest LandImpact AssessmentAnthropogenic ChangesPreservationLand Use PlanningDecision MakingSustainable DevelopmentSanta Cruz (Argentina)Impacto HumanoÁreas SilvestresConservación de la NaturalezaTierras ForestalesEvaluación del ImpactoEscala de PaisajeServicios EcosistémicosDesarrollo SustentableÍndice de Huella HumanaBiodiversidad PotencialÁreas de ConservaciónPlanificación del Uso de la TierraDecisiones PolíticasRegión PatagónicaEcosistem ServicesHuman Footprint IndexUnderstanding human influence on ecosystems and their services is crucial to achieve sustainable development and ensure the conservation of biodiversity. In this context, the human footprint index (HFI) represents the anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and the natural environment. Our objective was to characterize the HFI in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) across the landscape, qualifying the differences among the main ecological areas and especially the forested landscapes. We also assessed the potential utility of HFI to identify priority conservation areas according to their wilderness quality and potential biodiversity values. We created a HFI map (scores varied from 0 representing high wilderness quality to 1 representing maximum human impact) using variables related to direct (e.g. infrastructure) and indirect (e.g. derived from economic activities) human impacts, including settlements, accessibility, oil industry, and sheep production. HFI varied significantly across the natural landscapes, being lower (0.07−0.11) in remote ecosystems close to the Andes Mountains and higher (0.38−0.40) in southern areas close to the provincial capital city. Forested landscapes presented different impact values, which were directly related to the economical values of the different forest types. We determined that the current protected area network is not equally distributed across the different ecological areas and forest types. Priority conservation areas were also identified using the fragmentation produced by the human impact, the patch size, and the potential biodiversity values. HFI can present high compatibility with other land-use management decision making tools, acting as a complement to the existing tools for conservation planning or management.EEA SANTA CRUZFiliación: Fil: Rosas, Yamina M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC); Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina.Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA). Santa Cruz; Argentina.Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Pidgeon, Anna Michle. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. SILVIS Lab. Madison, WI; USA.Fil: Politi, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Jujuy; Argentina.Fil: Politi, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Jujuy; Argentina.Fil: Pedrana, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Balcarce, Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Laboratorio de SIG y Teledetección; Sevilla, Spain.Filiación: Fil: Martínez Pastur, Guillermo J. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego; Argentina.Elsevier2021-01-20T14:00:33Z2021-01-20T14:00:33Z2021-02info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8624Yamina Micaela Rosas, Pablo L. Peri, Anna M. Pidgeon, Natalia Politi, Julieta Pedrana, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Guillermo Martínez Pastur, Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?, Journal for Nature Conservation, Volume 59, 2021, 125946, ISSN 1617-1381, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125946.ISSN 1617-1381https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125946Journal for nature conservation 59 : 125946. 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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
title Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
spellingShingle Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
Rosas, Yamina Micaela
Nature Conservation
Wilderness Areas
Forest Land
Impact Assessment
Anthropogenic Changes
Preservation
Land Use Planning
Decision Making
Sustainable Development
Santa Cruz (Argentina)
Impacto Humano
Áreas Silvestres
Conservación de la Naturaleza
Tierras Forestales
Evaluación del Impacto
Escala de Paisaje
Servicios Ecosistémicos
Desarrollo Sustentable
Índice de Huella Humana
Biodiversidad Potencial
Áreas de Conservación
Planificación del Uso de la Tierra
Decisiones Políticas
Región Patagónica
Ecosistem Services
Human Footprint Index
title_short Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
title_full Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
title_fullStr Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
title_full_unstemmed Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
title_sort Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rosas, Yamina Micaela
Peri, Pablo Luis
Pidgeon, Anna Michle
Politi, Natalia
Pedrana, Julieta
Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo
Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José
author Rosas, Yamina Micaela
author_facet Rosas, Yamina Micaela
Peri, Pablo Luis
Pidgeon, Anna Michle
Politi, Natalia
Pedrana, Julieta
Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo
Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José
author_role author
author2 Peri, Pablo Luis
Pidgeon, Anna Michle
Politi, Natalia
Pedrana, Julieta
Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo
Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Nature Conservation
Wilderness Areas
Forest Land
Impact Assessment
Anthropogenic Changes
Preservation
Land Use Planning
Decision Making
Sustainable Development
Santa Cruz (Argentina)
Impacto Humano
Áreas Silvestres
Conservación de la Naturaleza
Tierras Forestales
Evaluación del Impacto
Escala de Paisaje
Servicios Ecosistémicos
Desarrollo Sustentable
Índice de Huella Humana
Biodiversidad Potencial
Áreas de Conservación
Planificación del Uso de la Tierra
Decisiones Políticas
Región Patagónica
Ecosistem Services
Human Footprint Index
topic Nature Conservation
Wilderness Areas
Forest Land
Impact Assessment
Anthropogenic Changes
Preservation
Land Use Planning
Decision Making
Sustainable Development
Santa Cruz (Argentina)
Impacto Humano
Áreas Silvestres
Conservación de la Naturaleza
Tierras Forestales
Evaluación del Impacto
Escala de Paisaje
Servicios Ecosistémicos
Desarrollo Sustentable
Índice de Huella Humana
Biodiversidad Potencial
Áreas de Conservación
Planificación del Uso de la Tierra
Decisiones Políticas
Región Patagónica
Ecosistem Services
Human Footprint Index
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Understanding human influence on ecosystems and their services is crucial to achieve sustainable development and ensure the conservation of biodiversity. In this context, the human footprint index (HFI) represents the anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and the natural environment. Our objective was to characterize the HFI in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) across the landscape, qualifying the differences among the main ecological areas and especially the forested landscapes. We also assessed the potential utility of HFI to identify priority conservation areas according to their wilderness quality and potential biodiversity values. We created a HFI map (scores varied from 0 representing high wilderness quality to 1 representing maximum human impact) using variables related to direct (e.g. infrastructure) and indirect (e.g. derived from economic activities) human impacts, including settlements, accessibility, oil industry, and sheep production. HFI varied significantly across the natural landscapes, being lower (0.07−0.11) in remote ecosystems close to the Andes Mountains and higher (0.38−0.40) in southern areas close to the provincial capital city. Forested landscapes presented different impact values, which were directly related to the economical values of the different forest types. We determined that the current protected area network is not equally distributed across the different ecological areas and forest types. Priority conservation areas were also identified using the fragmentation produced by the human impact, the patch size, and the potential biodiversity values. HFI can present high compatibility with other land-use management decision making tools, acting as a complement to the existing tools for conservation planning or management.
EEA SANTA CRUZ
Filiación: Fil: Rosas, Yamina M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC); Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA). Santa Cruz; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Argentina.
Fil: Pidgeon, Anna Michle. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. SILVIS Lab. Madison, WI; USA.
Fil: Politi, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Jujuy; Argentina.
Fil: Politi, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Jujuy; Argentina.
Fil: Pedrana, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Balcarce, Buenos Aires; Argentina.
Fil: Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Laboratorio de SIG y Teledetección; Sevilla, Spain.
Filiación: Fil: Martínez Pastur, Guillermo J. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego; Argentina.
description Understanding human influence on ecosystems and their services is crucial to achieve sustainable development and ensure the conservation of biodiversity. In this context, the human footprint index (HFI) represents the anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and the natural environment. Our objective was to characterize the HFI in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) across the landscape, qualifying the differences among the main ecological areas and especially the forested landscapes. We also assessed the potential utility of HFI to identify priority conservation areas according to their wilderness quality and potential biodiversity values. We created a HFI map (scores varied from 0 representing high wilderness quality to 1 representing maximum human impact) using variables related to direct (e.g. infrastructure) and indirect (e.g. derived from economic activities) human impacts, including settlements, accessibility, oil industry, and sheep production. HFI varied significantly across the natural landscapes, being lower (0.07−0.11) in remote ecosystems close to the Andes Mountains and higher (0.38−0.40) in southern areas close to the provincial capital city. Forested landscapes presented different impact values, which were directly related to the economical values of the different forest types. We determined that the current protected area network is not equally distributed across the different ecological areas and forest types. Priority conservation areas were also identified using the fragmentation produced by the human impact, the patch size, and the potential biodiversity values. HFI can present high compatibility with other land-use management decision making tools, acting as a complement to the existing tools for conservation planning or management.
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