Decision letter for "AN APPROACH TO IDENTIFY AND UNDERSTAND THE MAIN PROCESSES OF WEATHERING THAT SUFFER THE PRE‐HISPANIC STELAE LOCATED IN THE CALAKMUL BIOSPHERE RESERVE IN CAMPECHE, MEXICO"

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 194008291983414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Carrillo ◽  
Eduardo J. Naranjo ◽  
Sergio Cortina-Villar ◽  
Rafael Reyna-Hurtado ◽  
Eduardo Mendoza

Extensive, unprotected tracts of tropical forests remain in community territories of the Calakmul region, in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. These forest tracts face deforestation mainly due to agricultural development. Based on the graphic theory and using the CONEFOR SENSINODE 2.2 program, we analyzed the landscape connectivity between the forests of two communities and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. Derived from vegetation cover and land use classification, the landscape was characterized considering Baird’s tapir habitat preferences. The indices used showed a loss of connectivity between community territories and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, making it difficult for tapirs to move outside the continuous forests. We detected a few important nodes for landscape connectivity and a reduced number of connections allowing potential tapir dispersal in each study site. Despite the evident trends of forest fragmentation across the Calakmul region, our results suggest that the landscapes of our study sites are not optimal, but still usable for tapirs, which are able to move throughout habitat mosaics of forests and agricultural areas. We recommend that farming practices should be encouraged over mechanized agriculture to mitigate deforestation and tapir habitat loss in the study area.


2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Evan Mercer ◽  
Jeremy Haggar ◽  
Ann Snook ◽  
Mauricio Sosa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Espinosa‐Morales ◽  
A. L. Alarcón ◽  
M.d. R. Domínguez‐Carrasco ◽  
V. Martínez‐Miranda ◽  
J. C. Arteaga‐Arcos ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-176
Author(s):  
Oscar Antonio Quintana Samayoa ◽  
Juan Antonio Siller Camacho

In order to study its conditions, since 1987 the authors have monitored the Prehispanic buildings located in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (mbr) in Petén, Guatemala; they have also analyzed neighboring protected areas such as the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, in Campeche, Mexico, and others. This region of the Central lowlands is now known to possess a double heritage: cultural and natural. For the Maya Biosphere Reserve, in Guatemala, the data indicates that this mixed "ideal" management of heritage has not been successful, since the natural and environmental aspects prevail over the cultural ones. For this reason, the present work tries to give an updated view of the condition of the built heritage in the mbr and seeks to revalue the spirit of mixed management.


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