Landscape diversity in the Chiapas State, Mexico
Por:
Morales Iglesias, Horacio, Priego Santander, Angel Guadalupe
Publicada:
1 ene 2020
Resumen:
The goal of this research is to understand and evaluate the distribution
of the complexity and heterogeneity of the physical-geographical
landscapes of Chiapas, Mexico. In order to achieve this goal, two
indicators of complexity, one of richness and two of geoecological
diversity, were applied to the map of the physical-geographical
landscapes of the Chiapas State, in a 1: 250 000 scale. The results
indicate a spatial coincidence between diversity and complexity
landscape. The high and very high levels of this correlation are
represented by a minority of extensive landscapes of tectonic-karstic,
tectonic-accumulative and tectonic-intrusive origin; the
physical-geographical regions with these kinds of landscapes are Sierra
Lacandona, Sierras del Norte de Chiapas and Sierras del Sur de Chiapas.
The researchs about geoecological heterogeneity through the Complex
Physical Geography approach generate relevant contributions to the
Land-use planning studies, because the results allow clearly and
objectively to identify the areas with the greatest geodiversity.
Filiaciones:
Morales Iglesias, Horacio:
UNICACH, Inst Invest Gest Riesgos & Cambio Climat, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Priego Santander, Angel Guadalupe:
Ctr Invest Geog Ambiental, UNAM Campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
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