The human footprint in Mexico: physical geography and historical legacies.

Using publicly available data on land use and transportation corridors we calculated the human footprint index for the whole of Mexico to identify large-scale spatial patterns in the anthropogenic transformation of the land surface. We developed a map of the human footprint for the whole country and...

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Main Authors: Charlotte González-Abraham, Exequiel Ezcurra, Pedro P Garcillán, Alfredo Ortega-Rubio, Melanie Kolb, Juan E Bezaury Creel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4372411?pdf=render