Research, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Total Historical Land-Use Change in Eastern Bolivia: Who, Where, When,…

By T. Killeen, A. Guerra, M. Calzada, L. Correa, V. Calderon, L. Soria, B. Quezada, M. Steininger. 2008

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We documented the history of land-use change and migration in eastern Bolivia in five temporal periods: pre-1976, 1976-1986, 1986-1991, 1991-2001, and 2001-2004. We included all land- cover types located below the natural montane tree line (~3000 m), including forest, savanna, scrubland, seasonal wetland, second-growth forest, pasture, and cropland. The rate of land-use change has increased from approximately 4.7 × 104 ha/yr in the 1960s to > 2.9 × 10 5 ha/yr in the most recent period. Land-use change was quantified for 10 groups within which cultural traditions and production systems are shared, including three nonmechanized indigenous groups, four mechanized farming groups, two cattle ranching groups, and the forest products sector. Mechanized Cruceno farmers and Andean indigenous colonists were responsible for most land-use change in the 1960s and 1970s; deforestation by the latter group increased to twice that by all other groups during 1986-1991, declined in the 1990s, and then increased again in the most recent period. In the last 15 years, land-use change by agro-industrialists specializing in soybean has become important, and cattle ranching based on cultivated pastures has surpassed land use by all other groups. When the rates of change increased for the three indigenous nonmechanized groups, they tended to decrease for the four nonindigenous mechanized groups, and vice versa.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, History

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Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation (2009, background): “…as agents of deforestation, circumstances like policy changes or business cycles have changed the agents of deforestation from year to year, increasing in some instances the impacts of smallholders and decreasing the effects of large-scale enterprises (Ewers et al. 2008; Killeen et al. 2008).”
Phenological matching across hemispheres in a long‐distance migratory bird (2013, background): “In this department, where over half of the country’s rice is produced (FAOSTAT, 2012), c. 260,000 ha undergo land use changes annually, mostly via deforestation; 41% of forests have been converted to crops (Killeen et al., 2008).”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America (2008, background): “This process affects the species-rich Amazon forests (Fearnside 2001, Killeen et al. 2008) and indirectly favors other forms of degradation beyond the agriculture frontier, such as logging and fire (Nepstad et al. 1999).”
Measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under REDD+ (2015, methodology): “A nice example of this approach is Killeen et al (2008) documenting land transformations by different social and economic groups in Bolivia over multiple decades.”