Browsing by Author "Folchi, Mauricio"

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    Discourses of Nature in New Perceptions of the Natural Landscape in Southern Chile
    (2018) Aliste, Enrique; Folchi, Mauricio; Núñez González, Andrés Alfonso
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    Sixty years of land-use and land-cover change dynamics in a global biodiversity hotspot under threat from global change
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2021) Hermosilla Palma, Katherine; Pliscoff, Patricio; Folchi, Mauricio
    Constitucion County in Chile shows one of the highest landscape transformations in the world due to the expansion of forest plantations. This work describes the land use/cover dynamics over a long period extending over 60 years in Constitucion County. The results showed that 60% of the county extent was covered by natural vegetationt in 1955. However, forest plantation increased to 36% by 1975 and reached 72% by 2014. This expansion was mainly achieved by replacing native vegetation revealing evidence of the impact of forest plantations on native vegetation even before decree-law 701 (1974). Forest plantation expansion produced fragmentation and loss of natural habitat, and 50% of the remaining habitats showed low habitat quality by 2014. Finally, in 2017 a wildfire burned 77% and 42% of the remaining native forest and shrubland. These results showed the long-lasting impact of forest plantations, underpinning the need to move towards a new sustainable forest model.