Exploring Linkages between Supporting, Regulating, and Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Rangelands in a Tropical Agro-Forest Frontier

摘要: Rangeland management in former tropical rainforest areas may affect ecosystem services. We hypothesized that practices like burning and overgrazing reduce supporting (soil quality) consequently also provisioning (forage productivity regulating (nutrient cycling) established 31 exclosures two landscape categories (alluvial soils, low-hills), documented practices, assessed 18 soil quality indicators, litter decomposition as a proxy for nutrient cycling, forage quantity during one year grasslands of the Lacandon region, southeast Mexico. Path analysis was used to explore direct indirect effects livestock on soil-based Landscape position had properties. Altitude (a catena, ranging from alluvial soils along Lacantun river Cambisols Acrisols low-hills) variable showing most significant negative relations with production. Decomposition rate site-specific no relation management. Our study suggests landscape, which relates water availability, stronger than drives farmers practices.