Datasets and Maps of Biodiversity and Soil

The team created a data set of vertebrate species and plants associated with different crops in the Orinoquía Region, as well as detailed soil carbon and land-use maps that are available on the web at their Orinoquía Dashboard. These data sets and maps will inform future land-use planners on how to work with the environment rather than to disregard it, while also developing the region.

A Decision Support Framework

The team recognizes that land-use change is inevitable in under-developed regions, such as the Orinoquía, so they developed a framework that takes into account competing economic and environmental objectives in order to suggest action plans. Through using spatial analysis, the team can address agricultural production value, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem services retention within their framework. The two categories of outputs of the framework are spatially explicit solutions that zone each commodity and natural areas, and trade-off analyses of competing objectives.