Evaluation of the Change in Vegetation Coverage of the El Salto River Sub-Basin, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

 

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Συγγραφείς: Jose Carlos Castro, Marlon Obando, Daniel Rodríguez, Yirieth Torres
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2021
Περιγραφή:Vegetation coverage provides a series of benefits for both biodiversity and human activities that take place within a hydrological basin. Despite this, historically vegetation coverage has been affected by human intervention. The objective of this project is to determine the change in the vegetation cover of the El Salto River sub-basin, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, for the 1991-2021 period. It was observed that changes in coverage throughout the mentioned period had an improving trend, 49.77% of unhealthy vegetation with values of 0.2 and 0.3 in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, which changed for 2021 raising to 0.9. The improvement in the vegetation coverage is mainly associated with institutional efforts, since in the year 1997 a new forestry law came into effect and the program of payments for environmental services began to be implemented.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UNED
Ίδρυμα:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uned.ac.cr:article/3908
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/index/article/view/3908
Λέξη-Κλειδί :watershed
hydrological basin
reforestation
forestry law
satellite imagery
cuenca hidrográfica
cuenca hidrológica
reforestación
ley forestal
imagen satelital