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Table 2

Depletion and degradation indicators for natural assets and costs associated with 

the loss of ecosystem services, by ecoregion. Period 1991-2003.

Source: IARNA-URL.

Ecoregion

Loss of 

forest cover 

(ha)

Changes in forest 

with densities above 

80% of forest cover 

(ha)

Cost (Q) of 

land erosion in 

deforested areas 

(1991-2003)

Cost (Q) for carbon 

release above and 

below ground in 

deforested areas 

(1991-2003)

Motagua Valley Thornshrub

 14,471.9 

 (8,177.9)

 1,966,416.2 

 14,939,954.5 

Central American Pine-Oak 

Forests

 192,627.9 

 (67,456.3)

 237,296,058.3 

 322,921,413.5 

Sierra Madre of Chiapas 

Humid Forests

 18,355.1 

 (637.9)

 27,830,048.5 

 40,084,105.8 

Petén-Veracruz Humid 

Forests

 540,214.6 

 (413,872.2)

 733,534,633.7 

 1,179,721,566.4 

Yucatán Humid Forests

 34.8 

 0.3 

 7,514.9 

 76,040.8 

Central American Atlantic 

Humid Forests

 62,723.9 

 (31,862.3)

 93,262,036.5 

 136,976,941.1 

Central American Montane 

Forests

 29,828.1 

 (12,479.2)

 33,014,093.4 

 45,436,874.6 

Chiapas Montane Forests

 2,700.4 

 (853.9)

 1,896,107.3 

 4,113,480.3 

Central American Dry 

Forests

 8,958.3 

 49.6 

 8,815,347.1 

 9,248,075.9 

Chiapas Depression Dry 

Forests

 6,215.3 

 (1,519.6)

 10,866,228.1 

 6,416,287.0 

Mangroves of the Northern 

Dry Forests of the Pacific 

Coast

 788.4 

 (89.6)

 21,466.1 

 1,822,089.7 

Mangroves of the Belizean 

Coast

 2,443.4 

 (1,234.4)

 1,360,288.7 

 5,647,149.5 

Mangroves of Tehuantepec-El 

Manchón

 618.0 

 128.0 

 168,390.3 

 1,428,393.6 

Mangroves of Northern 

Honduras

 239.9 

 (106.7)

 352.3 

 554,393.5 

Total

 880,220.0

 

 (538,112.1)

 

1,150,038,981.5

 

 1,769,386,766.1