18 Regionalized Land Systems in the Dry Chaco and the Chiquitano forests for the years 1985, 2000 and 2023
Related Publications:

Marie Pratzer et al. (2025) Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning. One Earth, April 2025, 101247.

Marie Pratzer et al. (2026) Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present. PNAS, 123(7): e2528453123.

Class Description
The 18 regionalized Land Systems are grouped according to the overarching system from a global typology. The global typology level includes 15 land systems (see Pratzer et al. (2025), Fig.4). The regionalized typology level shown here refined these global systems into 18 systems to fit the context of the Dry Chaco and Chiquitano forests, leaving out land systems that do not occur in a region. Where necessary, global systems were split into several regional sub-systems to better characterize the diversity of land use actors and activities for these regions. This resulted in three systems associated with industrialized cropping; three systems for capitalized ranching; two systems each associated with smallholder farming, forest-dwelling, and state conservation; as well as one system for speculative land holding, pastoralism, forestry, private conservation, community conservation, and mining. For the years 2000 and 1985, some layers are not shown as they were not mapped for those time periods.

Data Availability
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Webmapping: Ruben Butzer
Last Update: 16.03.2026