Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Evaluation of Mangrove Cover Changes in Mexico During the 1970–2005 Period

  • Article
  • Published:
Wetlands Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Our objective was to evaluate the changes of mangrove forest coverage of Mexico and adjacent land cover types in the coastal zone between 1970 and 2005 by remote sensing techniques. Based on maps generated by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO for its Spanish acronym), three land cover change indicators were estimated: net change, stability of location, and stability of residence. Analyses were made at national and regional (Northern Pacific, Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Yucatan Peninsula) scales, and for the 17 states presenting mangroves. At the national level during the studied period we observed a 10 % net loss of mangrove. At the state level, 13 states lost area, three gained area, and one showed no change in mangrove cover. According to the indicators of location stability and residence stability, the lowest values were recorded in four states within the Pacific Ocean coast (Jalisco, Colima, Guerrero, and Oaxaca), while the highest values corresponded to two states of the Gulf of Mexico (Tamaulipas and Tabasco). Many of the changes in mangrove cover we detected were attributed to crop and animal husbandry activities, and to anthropic infrastructure.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Berlanga-Robles C, Ruiz-Luna A (2006) Evaluación de cambios en el paisaje y sus efectos sobre los humedales costeros del sistema estuarino de San Blas, Nayarit (México) por medio de análisis de imágenes Landsat Assessment of landscape changes and their effects on the San Blas estuarin. Ciencias Marinas 32:523–538

    Google Scholar 

  • Berlanga-Robles C, García-Campos R, López-Blanco J, Ruiz-Luna A (2010) Patrones de cambio de coberturas y usos del suelo en la región costa norte de Nayarit (1973–2000). Investigaciones Geográficas, Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, UNAM 7–22

  • Blaustein R (2008) Global Human Impacts. Bioscience 58:376. doi:10.1641/B580419

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • CONABIO (2009) Capital natural de México, vol II: Estado de conservación y tendencias de cambio. 37–73.

  • Dittmar T, Hertkorn N, Kattner G, Lara RJ (2006) Mangroves, a major source of dissolved organic carbon to the oceans. Global Biogeochem Cycles 20, GB1012

    Google Scholar 

  • Everitt BS, Landau S, Leese M (2001) Cluster Analysis, Fourthth edn. Arnold, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Fisher B, Turner K, Zylstra M et al (2008) Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory : Integration for Policy-Relevant Research. Ecol Appl 18:2050–2067

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Food and Agriculture Organización of the United Nations (FAO) (1996) Forest Resources Assessment 1990. Survey of tropical forest cover and study of change processes. Forestry Paper 130. (Roma, Italia: FAO).

  • Giri C, Ochieng E, Tieszen LL, Zhu Z, Singh A, Loveland T, Duke, N (2011) Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20(1), 154–159. doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00584.x

  • Hernández-Cornejo R, Koedam N, Ruiz-Luna A, et al. (2005) Remote Sensing and Ethnobotanical Assessment of the Mangrove Forest Changes in the Navachiste-San Ignacio-Macapule Lagoon. Ecology and Society 10:

  • Kathiresan K, Qasim SZ (2005) Biodiversity of mangrove ecosystems (p. 251). New Delhi: Hindustan Pub. Corp.

  • Kovacs JM, Wang J, Blanco-Correa M (2001) Mapping Disturbances in a Mangrove Forest Using Multi-Date Landsat TM Imagery. Environ Manag 27:763–776

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kovacs JM, Wang J, Flores-Verdugo F (2005) Mapping mangrove leaf area index at the species level using IKONOS and LAI-2000 sensors for the Agua Brava Lagoon, Mexican Pacific. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 62:377–384

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lambin EF, Meyfroidt P (2010) Land use transitions: Socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change. Land Use Policy 27:108–118

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lambin EF, Turner BL, Geist HJ et al (2001) The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. Glob Environ Chang 11:261–269

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • López-Medellín X, Ezcurra E, González-Abraham C et al (2011) Oceanographic anomalies and sea-level rise drive mangroves inland in the Pacific coast of Mexico. J Veg Sci 22:143–151

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maechler M, Rousseeuw P, Struyf A, Huber M (2012) cluster: Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions.

  • Mas JF, Velázquez A, Díaz-Gallegos JR, Mayorga-Saucedo R, Alcántara C, Bocco G, Castro R, Fernández T, Pérez-Vega A (2004) Assessing Land Use/Cover Changes: A nationwide multidate spatial data base for Mexico. Int J ApplEarth Observation and Geoinformation 5:249–261

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mas JF, Velázquez A, Couturier S (2009) La evaluación de los cambios de cobertura/uso del suelo en la República Mexicana. Inverstigación ambiental 1:23–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Moreno-Casasola P, Rojas-Galviz JL, Zárate LD et al (2002) Diagnóstico de los manglares de Veracruz : distribución, vínculo con los recursos pesqueros y su problemática. Madera y Bosques 61–88

  • Páez-Osuna F, Gracia A, Flores-Verdugo F et al (2003) Shrimp aquaculture development and the environment in the Gulf of California ecoregion. Mar Pollut Bull 46:806–815

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Polidoro BA, Carpenter KE, Collins L et al (2010) The loss of species: mangrove extinction risk and geographic areas of global concern. PLoS One 5:10095

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pontiuis RG, Shusas E, McEachern M (2004) Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agric Ecosyst Environ 101:251–268

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ramsey E III, Nelson GA, Sapkota SK (2001) Coastal Change Analysis Program Implemented in Louisiana. Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc 17:53–71

    Google Scholar 

  • R Core Team (2,012) R: A language and environment for statistical computing.

  • Rodríguez-Zúñiga M.T., Troche-Souza C., Vázquez-Lule A. D., Márquez-Mendoza J. D., Vázquez- Balderas B., Valderrama-Landeros L., Velázquez-Salazar S., UribeMartínez A., Acosta-Velázquez J., Díaz-Gallegos J., Cruz-López M. I. y Ressl R. 2012. Los manglares de México: estado actual y establecimiento de un programa de monitoreo a largo plazo: 2ª y 3era etapas. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad. Informe final SNIB-CONABIO proyecto No. GQ004. México, D.F.

  • Rodríguez-Zúñiga MT, Troche-Souza C, Vázquez-Lule AD, Márquez-Mendoza JD, Vázquez-Balderas B, Valderrama-Landeros L, Velázquez-Salazar S, Cruz-López MI, Ressl R, Uribe-Martínez A, Cerdeira-Estrada S, Acosta-Velázquez J, Díaz-Gallegos J, Jiménez-Rosenberg R, Fueyo-Mac Donald L, Galindo-Leal C (2013) Manglares de México/Extensión, distribución y monitoreo. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, México D.F., p 128

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruiz-Luna A, Acosta-Velázquez J, Berlanga-Robles CA (2008) On the reliability of the data of the extent of mangroves: A case study in Mexico. Ocean & amp. Coast Manag 51:342–351

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ruiz-Luna A, Cervantes Escobar A, Berlanga-Robles C (2010) Assessing distribution patterns, extent, and current condition of Northwest Mexico mangroves. Wetlands 30(4):717–723. doi:10.1007/s13157-010-0082-2

  • Simard M, Riveramonroy V, Mancerapineda J et al (2008) A systematic method for 3D mapping of mangrove forests based on Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data, ICEsat/GLAS waveforms and field data: Application to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia. Remote Sens Environ 112:2131–2144

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spalding M, Kainuma M, Collins L (2010) World Atlas of Mangroves. A collaborative project of ITTO, ISME, FAO, UNEP-WCMC, UNESCO-MAB, UNU-INWEH and TNC. London (UK): Earthscan, London, pp 319

  • Unsworth R, De León P, Garrard S et al (2008) High connectivity of Indo-Pacific seagrass fish assemblages with mangrove and coral reef habitats. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 353:213–224

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vaca RA, Golicher DJ, Cayuela L et al (2012) Evidence of incipient forest transition in Southern Mexico. PLoS One 7:e42309. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042309

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge the suggestions and support given by Dr. René Colditz. Dr. Sergio Zárate Pedroche translated the manuscript from Spanish. All analyses were conducted at the National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) led by Dr. José Sarukhán Kermez

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Luis Valderrama.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

ESM 1

(PDF 64.3 Kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Valderrama, L., Troche, C., Rodriguez, M.T. et al. Evaluation of Mangrove Cover Changes in Mexico During the 1970–2005 Period. Wetlands 34, 747–758 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-014-0539-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-014-0539-9

Keywords

Navigation