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    • Mena Lorca, Jaime; Velasco Hernández, Jorge X.; Marquet, Pablo A. (ELSEVIER, 2006-07)
      Simple patch-occupancy models of competitive metacommunities have shown that coexistence is possible as long as there is a competition-colonization tradeoff such as that of superior competitors and dispersers. In this ...
    • Villavicencio, Natalia A.; Lindsey, Emily L.; Martin, Fabiana M.; Borrero, Luis A.; Moreno Moncada, Patricio; Marshall, Charles R.; Barnosky, Anthony D. (Willey-Blackwell, 2016)
      South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing  44 kg succumbed. Analysis of the megafaunal ...
    • Quezada Romegialli, Claudio; Fuentes, Mabel; Véliz Baeza, David (SPRINGER, 2010-10)
      To describe comparative population genetic structure of the Chilean silverside Basilichthys microlepidotus and the catfish Trichomycterus areolatus, four rivers and three sites within each river were investigated by ...
    • Chaparro, Oscar R.; Lincoqueo, L. A.; Schmidt, A. J.; Véliz Baeza, David; Pechenik, J. A. (Springer, 2012)
      The Chilean gastropods Crepipatella dilatata and C. fecunda have diVerent development modes: brooding and direct development in C. dilatata and brooding and planktotrophic development in C. fecunda. Unlike many other ...
    • Wilson, Kerrie A.; Underwood, Emma C.; Morrison, Scott A.; Klausmeyer, Kirk R.; Murdoch, William W.; Reyers, Belinda; Wardell-Johnson, Grant; Marquet, Pablo A.; Rundel, Phil W.; McBride, Marissa F.; Pressey, Robert L.; Bode, Michael; Hoekstra, Jon M.; Andelman, Sandy; Looker, Michael; Rondinini, Carlo; Kareiva, Peter; Shaw, M. Rebecca; Possingham, Hugh P. (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2007-09)
      Conservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions that address specific threats. We develop such ...
    • González Wevar, Claudio; Salinas, Pilar; Hüne, Mathias; Segovia, Nicolás; Vargas Chacoff, Luis; Oda, Esteban; Poulin, Elie (Oxford Univ Press, 2015)
      Galaxias maculatus (Pisces: Galaxiidae) commonly known as "puye" has a disjunct distribution along the Southern Hemisphere including landlocked and migratory populations at latitudes over 30 degrees S in South America, ...
    • Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Christianson, Danielle S.; Malhotra, Avni; Pennington, Stephanie C.; Sihi, Debjani; AghaKouchak, Amir; Anjileli, Hassan; Arain, M. Altaf; Armesto Zamudio, Juan; Ashraf, Samaneh; Ataka, Mioko; Baldocchi, Dennis; Black, Thomas Andrew; Buchmann, Nina; Carbone, Mariah S.; Chang, Shih-Chieh; Crill, Patrick; Curtis, Peter S.; Davidson, Eric A.; Desai, Ankur R.; Drake, John E.; El-Madany, Tarek S.; Gavazzi, Michael; Görres, Carolyn Monika; Gough, Christopher M.; Goulden, Michael; Gregg, Jillian; Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Omar; He, Jin-Sheng; Hirano, Takashi; Hopple, Anya; Hughes, Holly; Järveoja, Järvi; Jassal, Rachhpal; Jian, Jinshi; Kan, Haiming; Kaye, Jason; Kominami, Yuji; Liang, Naishen; Lipson, David; Macdonald, Catriona A.; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Mathes, Kayla; Mauritz, Marguerite; Mayes, Melanie A.; McNulty, Steve; Miao, Guofang; Migliavacca, Mirco; Miller, Scott; Miniat, Chelcy F.; Nietz, Jennifer G.; Nilsson, Mats B.; Noormets, Asko; Norouzi, Hamidreza; O’Connell, Christine S.; Osborne, Bruce; Oyonarte, Cecilio; Pang, Zhuo; Peichl, Matthias; Pendall, Elise; Pérez Quezada, Jorge; Phillips, Claire L.; Phillips, Richard P.; Raich, James W.; Renchon, Alexandre A.; Ruehr, Nadine K.; Sánchez Cañete, Enrique P.; Saunders, Matthew; Savage, Kathleen E.; Schrumpf, Marion; Scott, Russell L.; Seibt, Ulli; Silver, Whendee L; Sun, Wu; Szutu, Daphne; Takagi, Kentaro; Takagi, Masahiro; Teramoto, Munemasa; Tjoelker, Mark G.; Trumbore, Susan; Ueyama, Masahito; Vargas, Rodrigo; Varner, Ruth K.; Verfaillie, Joseph; Vogel, Christoph; Wang, Jinsong; Winston, Greg; Wood, Tana E.; Wu, Juying; Wutzler, Thomas; Zeng, Jiye; Zha, Tianshan; Zhang, Quan; Zou, Junliang (Wiley, 2020)
      Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. ...
    • Molina Montenegro, Marco A.; Badano, Ernesto I.; Cavieres, Lohengrin A. (INST ARCTIC ALPINE RES, UNIV COLORADO, 2006-05)
      High mountain environments are highly stressful for insect survival. It has been suggested that small microtopographic variations generating less stressful microclimatic conditions than the surrounding environment would ...
    • Moreno Moncada, Patricio; Villa Martínez, Rodrigo; Cárdenas, M. L.; Sagredo, E. A. (Elsevier, 2012)
      Much of the ongoing discussion regarding synchrony or bipolar asynchrony of paleoclimate events has centered on the timing and structure of the last glacial termination in the southern mid- latitudes, in particular the ...
    • Solís Gutiérrez, Roberto; Gómez Jeria, Juan (2014)
      We carried out an investigation and analysis of the relationships between the electronic structure and the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 affinity for a series of 2-amino- and 2-halothiazole derivatives using ...
    • Ampuero, David; Palma, Alvaro T.; Véliz Baeza, David; Pardo, Luis Miguel (Springer, 2010)
      Larval identiWcation represents a powerful tool for detailed studies on recruitment and population dynamics in marine invertebrates. However, intra-speciWc morphological variation can become a serious limitation for ...
    • Gómez Jeria, Juan (2014)
      We present an analysis of the relationships between the electronic structure and the SARS coronavirus papain-like protease inhibitory capacity of a series of 4-piperidinecarboxamide derivatives. The electronic structure ...
    • Hinojosa Opazo, Luis; Villagrán Moraga, Carolina (ELSEVIER, 2005-02-11)
      Two hypotheses have attempted to explain the development of Mixed Paleofloras during the Cenozoic in South America. One of them postulates changes in the climatic tolerances of its component taxa and the other calls for ...
    • Castro, Matías; Deane, Shelly M.; Ruiz, Lina; Rawlings, Douglas E.; Guiliani Guerin, Nicolás (Public Library Science, 2015)
      An understanding of biofilm formation is relevant to the design of biological strategies to improve the efficiency of the bioleaching process and to prevent environmental damages caused by acid mine/rock drainage. For this ...
    • Loreau, Michel; Oteng-Yeboah, Alfred (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2006-07-20)
    • Smith Ramírez, Cecilia; Martínez, P.; Núñez, M.; González, C.; Armesto, Juan J. (BLACKWELL, 2005-04)
      Species richness and taxonomic composition of pollinator assemblages are documented for 26 plant species from temperate rain forests of northern Chiloe Island, southern Chile (42 degrees 30'S). We investigated the patterns ...
    • Michalet, Richard; Brooker, Robin W.; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Kikvidze, Zaal; Lortie, Christopher J.; Pugnaire, Francisco I.; Valiente Banuet, Alfonso; Callaway, Ragan M. (BLACKWELL, 2006-07)
      A humped-back relationship between species richness and community biomass has frequently been observed in plant communities, at both local and regional scales, although often improperly called a productivity-diversity ...
    • Chacón, Paulina; Armesto, Juan J. (SPRINGER, 2006-01)
      Carbon-based secondary compounds (CBSCs), such as phenols or tannins, have been considered as one of the most important and general chemical barriers of woody plants against a diverse array of herbivores. Herbivory has ...
    • Jiménez, Alejandra; Pauchard, Aníbal; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Marticorena, Alicia; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro (Blackwell, 2007)
      Aim Taxonomic comparisons of alien floras across climatically similar regions have been proposed as a powerful approach for increasing our understanding of plant invasions across scales. However, detailed comparisons between ...
    • Rodríguez San Pedro, Annia; Simonetti Zambelli, Javier Andrés (Springer, 2015)
      Forestry plantations supporting native species exhibit a dense understory, which might reduce bat activity within plantations. We compared bat activity in Monterrey pine plantations with and without an understory in ...