The assessment of landscape anthropization in natural protected areas using quantitative indicators: A case study of the Pico Azul-La Escalera Environmental Protection Zone in Mexico
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| 格式: | artículo original |
| 狀態: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2025 |
| 實物特徵: | [Introduction]: The process of anthropization involves transformations that lead to changes in the composition, structure, functioning, dynamics, and evolution of landscapes. Its evaluation is essential for measuring the impacts caused by human activities in natural protected areas. [Methodology]: The research proposes taking as a case study the Pico Azul-La Escalera Environmental Protection Zone, in Mexico, and as a spatial unit, the anthroponatural landscapes. The comparative analysis of the results evaluates anthropization for this territory, using indices degree of naturalness (Gn) of Bollo and Velazco; index of anthropization of the vegetation cover (IACV) of Shishenko; coefficient of anthropogenic transformation of Shishenko (KAN); land degradation index (LDI) of Rulev, and degree of hemerobia (M) of Steinhardt and collaborators. [Results]: Of the 5 indices evaluated, only the KAN and the M offer congruent results when compared with the 5 categories established a priori, using the statistical method of natural breakdown, with a correspondence of more than 90 and 98.53 %, respectively. The worst results corresponded to the land degradation index, the anthropization of vegetation cover index and the degree of naturalness with 46.32 %, 52.2 % and 53.68 %, respectively. [Conclusions]: The results obtained here on M can contribute to generalizing its application to categorize the ranges resulting from applying this indicator in natural protected areas from being the one that offers the best results by the method of distribution of the categories. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| 機構: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| 語言: | Español Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/21099 |
| 在線閱讀: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ambientales/article/view/21099 |
| Palabra clave: | anthronatural landscapes; coefficient of anthropogenic transformation; degree of naturalness; hemerobia; index of anthropization of vegetation cover; land degradation index; coeficiente de transformación antropogénica; grado de naturalidad; índice de degradación de la tierra; paisajes antroponaturales; índice de transformación de la cobertura vegetal coeficiente de transformação antropogênica grau de naturalidade índice de transformação da cobertura vegetal paisagens antroponaturais índice de degradação da terra |