Of cities, conservation and rodents: San Cristóbal de las Casas
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22201/cuaieed.16076079e.2022.23.2.5Keywords:
ecology, landscapes, rodents, urbanization, zoonosisAbstract
Currently, more than half-worldwide population is living in a city. This present tendency is increasing. In this way, in a few years, even more people will inhabit in an exist or developing city. Predictions are that in 2030 six of ten Mexicans will live in a city, which will have consequences to the fauna, ecosystems, and human health. This research project is about a medium-sized city in Chiapas, named San Cristobal de las Casas, that has experienced an accelerated urbanization process in a short period. The overall goal was to evaluate the rodent’s response to the urbanization, from the landscape ecology approach. At the same time, we have investigated the role of natural and preserved landscapes in maintaining high diversities of rodent species. We found that preserved areas are not the most diverse areas; nevertheless, they maintain high abundance of rodent species that have not been found in other landscapes in San Cristobal de las Casas. In conclusion, these landscapes are under big anthropogenic pressure.
References
Almejo Hernández, R., García Galeana, J., y Benítez Villegas, I. (2014). La urbanización en México 2010-2030: un esbozo de los retos y oportunidades asociados al crecimiento urbano y regional oportunidad. La situación demográfica de México 2014 (pp. 139-163). Consejo Nacional de Población. https://cutt.ly/EAEKjhd.
Camacho-Valdez, V., Tello-Alcaide, E. M., Wootton, A., y Valencia-Barrera, E. (2019). Land Use Change and Urban Ecosystem Services: a case study of urban wetlands in a rapidly sprawling city in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Management and Sustainability, 9(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.5539/jms.v9n1p67.
inegi. (2015). Conteo Intercensal de Población y Vivienda, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, Aguascalientes.
inegi. (2021). Chiapas. Número de habitantes. Información de México para niños. http://www.cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/informacion/chis/poblacion/.
Markman, D. S. (1963). San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Escuela de Estudios Hispano Americanos.
McKinney, M. L. (2006). Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization. Biological Conservation, 127(3), 247-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.005.
onu-Habitat. (2021). Tendencias del desarrollo urbano en México. Programa de Las Naciones Unidas Para Los Asentamientos Humanos. https://onuhabitat.org.mx/index.php/tendencias-del-desarrollo-urbano-en-mexico.
Published
Issue
Section
License
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
![Licencia Creative Commons](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png)
Revista Digital Universitaria es editada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México se distribuye bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional. Basada en una obra en http://revista.unam.mx/.