Determinants of the spatial distribution of cultivated land in the North Argentine Dry Chaco in a multi-decadal study

摘要

Deforestation in the Northern Argentine Dry Chaco (NADC) has been mainly driven by soybean expansion and, more recently, by the expansion of implanted pastures. In areas with fast land use transformations, it is important to identify variables that determine the spatial distribution of land use change. The kinds of exploratory analyses that do so contribute to understanding the logic of deforestation agents and to identifying more probable sectors for land use change. We produced maps of cultiva