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Flora of Chiapas Part 1. Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas@@@Flora of Chiapas Part 2. Pteridophytes
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This article is published in Kew Bulletin.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flora.read more
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Soil seed banks and regeneration of tropical rain forest from milpa fields at the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico
Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio,Mario González-Espinosa,Neptalí Ramírez-Marcial,Gabriela Dominguez-Vazquez,Miguel Martínez-Icó +4 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that current expansion of pastures and agricultural fields modifies seed deposition and storage patterns in the soil that may alter the process of secondary succession, which compromises both the regenerating potential of tropical rain forest in the region, and the sustainability of traditional practices and economic relationships of the Lacandon Maya.
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Identifying priority areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in Chiapas (Mexico): an operational approach combining ecological and socioeconomic criteria.
Francesco Orsi,Davide Geneletti +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a GIS-based methodology is introduced to identify reforestation priorities, design a number of landscape-scale reforestation options and evaluate them with respect to a set of ecological and socioeconomic criteria.
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Tree composition and structure in disturbed stands with varying dominance by Pinus spp. in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: The results suggest that a plan forsustainable forest utilization in the study region, and in other similarpopulated tropical highlands, could take advantage of the abundant oak regeneration and coexistence with pines in the canopy.
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Traditional land-use systems and patterns of forest fragmentation in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.
TL;DR: The prevalence of rather poor soil conditions, small-holdings, growing human population densities, increasing poverty, and the absence of alternative economic options will maintain a high rate of deforestation and forest fragmentation in the studied region.
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Modelling tree diversity in a highly fragmented tropical montane landscape
TL;DR: In this article, the spatial variation of tree diversity in a tropical montane landscape subjected to a high deforestation rate was predicted using a generalized linear model with a gamma error distribution, and the results were used to identify and assign conservation priority of unexplored areas that have high tree diversity.
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The importance of weeds in ethnopharmacology.
TL;DR: Data is presented showing the significant representation of weeds in the medicinal floras of the Highland Maya in Chiapas, Mexico and in the Medicinal flora of Native North Americans as a whole.
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Anthropogenic disturbance and tree diversity in Montane Rain Forests in Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on forest structure and composition in the highly populated Montane Rain Forests of northern Chiapas, Mexico was studied, with a high number of understory trees species in QPF, and an impoverished composition in PF.
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Biological diversity in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico
Patricia Dávila,Marîa del Coro Arizmendi,Alfonso Valiente-Banuet,José Luis Villaseñor,Alejandro Casas,Rafael Lira +5 more
TL;DR: A general overview of the biological knowledge of the floristic province of the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley in central-southern Mexico is presented in this paper.
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Land use and deforestation in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: Deforestation rates and land-use changes related to environmental factors (slope angle and soil type), in addition to some local population and economic attributes, were estimated from Landsat MSS satellite images of two municipalities of different sizes and for a greater portion of the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico as discussed by the authors.
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Patterns in species richness and distribution of vascular epiphytes in Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: Assessment of regional patterns in the distribution and species richness of vascular epiphytes with an emphasis on forests that differ in altitude and the amount of rainfall in Chiapas confirmed the presumed presence of a belt of high diversity at mid-elevations in neotropical mountains.