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Fire history in the mixed pine - oak forest on the national Park Chipinque, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MexicoHistorial de incendios en el bosque mixto de pinos y robles en el Parque Nacional Chipinque, en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México |
Abstract: |
Forest ecosystems throughout the world have evolved over millions of years with fire as a common disturbance process. The assessment of the historical disturbance effects across landscapes can provide an important foundation for land management decisions, aimed at ecosystem restoration and maintenance. There are not many investigations in Mexico regarding the historic disturbance patterns, until now. Little research has been concluded locally in the Sierra Madre Oriental, the main research has been in 1998. But, these research has provided just general information about disturbance patterns, the ecological impact and succession. The different effects forest fires have on biodiversity and successional patterns are considered by using examples from the Sierra Madre Oriental mixed forest, Parque Ecológico Chipinque in northeast Mexico. This is a synthesize paper on forest fire history in Chipinque Park. The Park Chipinque has a territorial extension of 1624 ha in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon. Forest fires have been determined from 1860 and onwards, by dating fire scars on living individuals of Pinus pseudostrobus and Pinus teocote. |
