Mauricio Aguayo

TL;DR: In this article, the potential impacts of urban sprawl with respect to three ecosystems in the metropolitan area of Concepcion, Chile, were discussed. But the authors focused on the urban areas in South America and did not consider other cities in developing countries which are also experiencing rapid and uncontrolled growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a methodological framework that combines Geographic Information System and participatory methods (Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process) to map recreation and ecotourism at the municipality level.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trabajo hemos analyzed the dinamica espacial de los cambios en el uso del suelo ocurridos durante las ultimas decadas in un area of 2.3 millones de hectareas ubicada entre las regiones del Biobio and La Araucania.

TL;DR: Age and height structure indicate that the invasion process of Pinus contorta is at an early stage, and this offers a unique opportunity to study the process of invasion and to monitor it over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of land use and cover change (LUCC) on recreation and ecotourism opportunities over three decades in southern Chile was examined, and the most important trajectories in terms of area, were the recent degradation of old-growth to secondary forest between 1999 and 2007 (23,290 ha; 13.5% of landscape), and the early clearing of shrublands for agriculture and pasture land between 1976 and 1985 (7,187 ha, 4.2%).