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Mexican fauna in agroecosystems: challenges, opportunities and future directions

Mexican fauna in agroecosystems: challenges, opportunities and future directions
Mexican fauna in agroecosystems: challenges, opportunities and future directions

Agroecosystems play a central role in the environmental crisis that considerably affects the functioning of the ecosystems worldwide. In Mexico, the expansion of agroecosystems is the main cause of deforestation and one of the main threats to its biodiversity. Food production and human well-being depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, so it is essential to rethink the way food is produced in countries as biologically and culturally diverse as Mexico. In this chapter, we analyze the information generated about the impacts of agroecosystems on the native fauna of Mexico (with emphasis on bats, birds, and insects). We discuss the efforts implemented to reduce negative impacts, the importance of the ecosystem services provided by fauna, the areas of opportunity for conservation in such systems, and the areas where it is necessary to increase efforts to generate information for evidence-based conservation and decision making to move towards sustainability in landscapes dominated by human activities.

Agricultural matrix, Anthropocene, Cropland, Food production, Land use change
333-356
Springer Cham
Escobar-Ibáñez, Juan Fernando
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Hernández-Cumplido, Johnattan
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Rodríguez, William D.
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Saldaña-Vázquez, Romeo A.
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Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica
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Jones, Robert W.
Ornelas-García, C. Patricia
Pineda-López, Rubén
Álvarez, Fernando
Escobar-Ibáñez, Juan Fernando
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Hernández-Cumplido, Johnattan
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Rodríguez, William D.
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Saldaña-Vázquez, Romeo A.
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Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica
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Jones, Robert W.
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Álvarez, Fernando

Escobar-Ibáñez, Juan Fernando, Hernández-Cumplido, Johnattan, Rodríguez, William D., Saldaña-Vázquez, Romeo A. and Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica (2023) Mexican fauna in agroecosystems: challenges, opportunities and future directions. In, Jones, Robert W., Ornelas-García, C. Patricia, Pineda-López, Rubén and Álvarez, Fernando (eds.) Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene. 1 ed. Springer Cham, pp. 333-356. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17277-9_16).

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Abstract

Agroecosystems play a central role in the environmental crisis that considerably affects the functioning of the ecosystems worldwide. In Mexico, the expansion of agroecosystems is the main cause of deforestation and one of the main threats to its biodiversity. Food production and human well-being depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, so it is essential to rethink the way food is produced in countries as biologically and culturally diverse as Mexico. In this chapter, we analyze the information generated about the impacts of agroecosystems on the native fauna of Mexico (with emphasis on bats, birds, and insects). We discuss the efforts implemented to reduce negative impacts, the importance of the ecosystem services provided by fauna, the areas of opportunity for conservation in such systems, and the areas where it is necessary to increase efforts to generate information for evidence-based conservation and decision making to move towards sustainability in landscapes dominated by human activities.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 31 January 2023
Keywords: Agricultural matrix, Anthropocene, Cropland, Food production, Land use change

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Local EPrints ID: 488175
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488175
PURE UUID: e9badd25-d030-488e-b7c6-36cd1505611f
ORCID for Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0661-5180

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Date deposited: 17 Mar 2024 07:19
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:20

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Author: Juan Fernando Escobar-Ibáñez
Author: Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido
Author: William D. Rodríguez
Author: Romeo A. Saldaña-Vázquez
Author: Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez ORCID iD
Editor: Robert W. Jones
Editor: C. Patricia Ornelas-García
Editor: Rubén Pineda-López
Editor: Fernando Álvarez

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