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Land Use and Land Cover in Irrigated Drylands: a Long-Term Analysis of Changes in the Mendoza and Tunuyán River Basins, Argentina (1986–2018)

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Processes of agricultural expansion and retreat have provoked an emerging global debate and driven more focused research, due to its socio-environmental consequences. This paper evaluates large-scale LU/LC changes over 32 years from 1986 to 2018 at eight-year increments, based on freely available Landsat imagery processed with open-source QGIS tos. The results are the first quantification of surface areas and fine-grained maps of long-term LU/LC changes in the region. Results indicate marked cropland expansion in the upper Tunuyán River basin while in the lower Tunuyán River basin, small cultivated plots were abandoned. In the Mendoza River basin, there was significant urban expansion onto previously cultivated land but cropland did expand in some areas. The analysis suggests three main drivers of LU/LC change: abandonment of vineyards and orchards in the lower Tunuyán River basin, vineyard expansion in the upper Tunuyán River basin, and peri-urbanization in the Mendoza River basin.

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This research was carried out with a grant from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (CRN3056) which is supported by the US National Foundation (Grant GEO-1128040). We also acknowledge the support from the International Water Security Network funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation (London), a charitable foundation that helps protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement, and applied research. Thank you to Horacio Britos and Mario Salomón for advice, support, and discussions. And we thank the anonymous reviewers who suggested important improvements and corrections.

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This research was carried out with a grant from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (CRN3056) which is supported by the US National Foundation (Grant GEO-1128040). The International Water Security Network funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation (London), support was also provided.

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  1. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA-CONICET); Instituto de Geografía, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Ruiz Leal Ave, General San Martín Park, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

    Facundo Rojas

  2. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA-CONICET), Ruiz Leal Ave, General San Martín Park, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

    Cecilia Rubio

  3. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, República de Italia 780, Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Martín Rizzo

  4. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA-CONICET), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Ruiz Leal Ave, General San Martín Park, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

    Marta Bernabeu

  5. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Almirante Brown 500, P.O.BOX. M5528AHB, Luján de Cuyo, Argentina

    Nur Akil

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Highlights

- Maps of long-term LU/LC changes for irrigated drylands in central western Argentina

- Five consistent and accurate land surface analyses for two main river basins for 1986 and 2018, based on a dense Landsat time series

- Consequential changes are identified, including accelerated expansion and retraction of irrigated and urban lands

- Open source data and methodology for LU/LC monitoring and policy making

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Rojas, F., Rubio, C., Rizzo, M. et al. Land Use and Land Cover in Irrigated Drylands: a Long-Term Analysis of Changes in the Mendoza and Tunuyán River Basins, Argentina (1986–2018). Appl. Spatial Analysis 13, 875–899 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-020-09335-6

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