TY - CHAP
T1 - Mexican Fauna in Agroecosystems
T2 - Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions
AU - Escobar-Ibáñez, Juan Fernando
AU - Hernández-Cumplido, Johnattan
AU - Rodríguez, William D.
AU - Saldaña-Vázquez, Romeo A.
AU - Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Agroecosystems play a central role in the environmental crisis that considerably affects the functioning of the ecosystems worldwide. In Mexico, the expansion of agroecosystems is the main cause of deforestation and one of the main threats to its biodiversity. Food production and human well-being depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, so it is essential to rethink the way food is produced in countries as biologically and culturally diverse as Mexico. In this chapter, we analyze the information generated about the impacts of agroecosystems on the native fauna of Mexico (with emphasis on bats, birds, and insects). We discuss the efforts implemented to reduce negative impacts, the importance of the ecosystem services provided by fauna, the areas of opportunity for conservation in such systems, and the areas where it is necessary to increase efforts to generate information for evidence-based conservation and decision making to move towards sustainability in landscapes dominated by human activities.
AB - Agroecosystems play a central role in the environmental crisis that considerably affects the functioning of the ecosystems worldwide. In Mexico, the expansion of agroecosystems is the main cause of deforestation and one of the main threats to its biodiversity. Food production and human well-being depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, so it is essential to rethink the way food is produced in countries as biologically and culturally diverse as Mexico. In this chapter, we analyze the information generated about the impacts of agroecosystems on the native fauna of Mexico (with emphasis on bats, birds, and insects). We discuss the efforts implemented to reduce negative impacts, the importance of the ecosystem services provided by fauna, the areas of opportunity for conservation in such systems, and the areas where it is necessary to increase efforts to generate information for evidence-based conservation and decision making to move towards sustainability in landscapes dominated by human activities.
KW - Agricultural matrix
KW - Anthropocene
KW - Cropland
KW - Food production
KW - Land use change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160153264&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-17277-9_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-17277-9_16
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85160153264
SN - 9783031172762
SP - 333
EP - 356
BT - Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -
