Management strategies for the conservation, restoration and utilization of mangroves in southeastern Mexico

Mangrove forests in Tabasco, Mexico, require the conservation, utilization and rehabilitation of degraded areas. To determine their use potential, a regionalization was performed on the basis of edaphic conditions, geographic distribution, land use, natural protected areasand forest utilization. Additionally, the zoning of soils was performed by means of photointerpretation of geoforms in 1:20000 orthophoto maps for the location and analysis of 16 soil profiles and the analysis of hydrocarbon contamination in 20 sites. Furthermore, a dasometric inventory of 30 transects was performed. The mangrove area was determined with a supervised classification of 2009 SPOT 5 satellite images. Mangroves occupied 41,498.5 ha of Solonchak and Histosol soils. Mangroves contained up to 1184 trees ha−¹ and had a maximum average height of 19 m. Regionalization determined that 55.0% of mangroves require protection, 5.8% correspond to an area polluted by heavy hydrocarbons and require restoration, and 39.2% require utilization by inhabitants.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Domínguez Domínguez, Marivel Doctora autora 13931, Zavala Cruz, Joel autor 15748, Rincón Ramírez, Joaquín Alberto autor, Martínez Zurimendi, Pablo Doctor autor 12321
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Manglares, Ordenación forestal, Explotación forestal, Conservación de los manglares,
Online Access:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-019-01136-z
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