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Table 3 Land-use changes from the 1950's to the 2000's in the Tamaulipan thornscrub of northeastern Mexico and southeastern USA.

From: Carbon fluxes resulting from land-use changes in the Tamaulipan thornscrub of northeastern Mexico

Source

Period

Area (km2)

Rate (%)

Places

  

Total

Deforested

  

SARH (1980)

1950–1970

Not Available

3,400

 

Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon

Proderleon (1990)

1980–1986

 

1,800

 

Nuevo Leon

Maldonado (1992)

1976–1986

  

1.10

Eastern Nuevo Leon

Treviño et al. (1996)

1973–1994

2,259

1,088

2.19

The Municipality of Linares, N.L.

Udvardy (1975)

1975

200,000

  

Mexico & US

WWF (2001)

2001

141,500

58,500

1.17

Mexico & US

WWF (2001)

2020

106,125

35,375

1.25

Mexico & US

Estimates

1975

45,495

  

Mexico

Palacios- Prieto (2000)

2001

32,188

13,307

1.17

Mexico

Predicted

2020

24,141

8,047

1.25

Mexico