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Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico

A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration. In this study, we assessed the above- and belowground carbon stocks...

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Autores principales: Aryal, Deb Raj, Morales-Ruiz, Danilo Enrique, López-Cruz, Susana, Tondopó-Marroquín, César Noe, Lara-Nucamendi, Alejandra, Jiménez-Trujillo, José Antonio, Pérez-Sánchez, Edwin, Betanzos-Simon, Juan Edduardo, Casasola-Coto, Francisco, Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra, Sepúlveda-López, Claudia Janeth, Ramírez-Díaz, Roselia, La O Arias, Manuel Alejandro, Guevara-Hernández, Francisco, Pinto-Ruiz, René, Ibrahim, Muhammad
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36202891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21089-4
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author Aryal, Deb Raj
Morales-Ruiz, Danilo Enrique
López-Cruz, Susana
Tondopó-Marroquín, César Noe
Lara-Nucamendi, Alejandra
Jiménez-Trujillo, José Antonio
Pérez-Sánchez, Edwin
Betanzos-Simon, Juan Edduardo
Casasola-Coto, Francisco
Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra
Sepúlveda-López, Claudia Janeth
Ramírez-Díaz, Roselia
La O Arias, Manuel Alejandro
Guevara-Hernández, Francisco
Pinto-Ruiz, René
Ibrahim, Muhammad
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Morales-Ruiz, Danilo Enrique
López-Cruz, Susana
Tondopó-Marroquín, César Noe
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Jiménez-Trujillo, José Antonio
Pérez-Sánchez, Edwin
Betanzos-Simon, Juan Edduardo
Casasola-Coto, Francisco
Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra
Sepúlveda-López, Claudia Janeth
Ramírez-Díaz, Roselia
La O Arias, Manuel Alejandro
Guevara-Hernández, Francisco
Pinto-Ruiz, René
Ibrahim, Muhammad
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description A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration. In this study, we assessed the above- and belowground carbon stocks across six different land-uses in livestock-dominated landscapes of Mexico. We measured tree biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in fodder banks, live fences, pasturelands with dispersed trees, secondary forests, and primary forests from three different geographical regions and compared them with conventional open pasturelands respectively. We also calculated tree diversity indices for each land-use and their similarity with native primary forests. The aboveground woody biomass stocks differed significantly between land-uses and followed the gradient from less diverse conventional open pasturelands to silvopastoral systems and ecologically complex primary forests. The SOC stocks showed a differential response to the land-use gradient dependent on the study region. Multivariate analyses showed that woody biomass, fine root biomass, and SOC concentrations were positively related, while land-use history and soil bulk density showed an inverse relationship to these variables. Silvopastoral systems and forest remnants stored 27–163% more carbon compared to open pasturelands. Our results demonstrate the importance of promoting appropriate silvopastoral systems and conserving forest remnants within livestock-dominated landscapes as a land-based carbon mitigation strategy. Furthermore, our findings also have important implications to help better manage livestock-dominated landscapes and minimize pressures on natural protected areas and biodiversity in the hotspots of deforestation for grassland expansion.
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spelling pubmed-95374172022-10-08 Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico Aryal, Deb Raj Morales-Ruiz, Danilo Enrique López-Cruz, Susana Tondopó-Marroquín, César Noe Lara-Nucamendi, Alejandra Jiménez-Trujillo, José Antonio Pérez-Sánchez, Edwin Betanzos-Simon, Juan Edduardo Casasola-Coto, Francisco Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra Sepúlveda-López, Claudia Janeth Ramírez-Díaz, Roselia La O Arias, Manuel Alejandro Guevara-Hernández, Francisco Pinto-Ruiz, René Ibrahim, Muhammad Sci Rep Article A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration. In this study, we assessed the above- and belowground carbon stocks across six different land-uses in livestock-dominated landscapes of Mexico. We measured tree biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in fodder banks, live fences, pasturelands with dispersed trees, secondary forests, and primary forests from three different geographical regions and compared them with conventional open pasturelands respectively. We also calculated tree diversity indices for each land-use and their similarity with native primary forests. The aboveground woody biomass stocks differed significantly between land-uses and followed the gradient from less diverse conventional open pasturelands to silvopastoral systems and ecologically complex primary forests. The SOC stocks showed a differential response to the land-use gradient dependent on the study region. Multivariate analyses showed that woody biomass, fine root biomass, and SOC concentrations were positively related, while land-use history and soil bulk density showed an inverse relationship to these variables. Silvopastoral systems and forest remnants stored 27–163% more carbon compared to open pasturelands. Our results demonstrate the importance of promoting appropriate silvopastoral systems and conserving forest remnants within livestock-dominated landscapes as a land-based carbon mitigation strategy. Furthermore, our findings also have important implications to help better manage livestock-dominated landscapes and minimize pressures on natural protected areas and biodiversity in the hotspots of deforestation for grassland expansion. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9537417/ /pubmed/36202891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21089-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Aryal, Deb Raj
Morales-Ruiz, Danilo Enrique
López-Cruz, Susana
Tondopó-Marroquín, César Noe
Lara-Nucamendi, Alejandra
Jiménez-Trujillo, José Antonio
Pérez-Sánchez, Edwin
Betanzos-Simon, Juan Edduardo
Casasola-Coto, Francisco
Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra
Sepúlveda-López, Claudia Janeth
Ramírez-Díaz, Roselia
La O Arias, Manuel Alejandro
Guevara-Hernández, Francisco
Pinto-Ruiz, René
Ibrahim, Muhammad
Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title_full Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title_fullStr Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title_short Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico
title_sort silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in mexico
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36202891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21089-4
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