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    • Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Novaro, Andrés J.; Kunzle, Pablo; Chacón, Mauricio; Barrientos, Miguel; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      © 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany and ISPA. Over the last 70 years, introduced beavers (Castor canadensis) have been successful in establishing and modifying the landscape of southernmost Patagonia. Habitat availability ...
    • Munita Salazar, Cintia; Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal (Elsevier, 2016)
      Behavioral studies of wild animals kept in captivity provide useful information for conservation programs and animal welfare. These studies can also be time and resource consuming. For this reason, the aim of this study ...
    • Berger, Joel; Wangchuk, Tshewang; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Vila, Alejandro; Lambert, Joanna E. (MDPI, 2020)
      The human population grows inexorably. When Charles Darwin explored the southern cone of South America in 1830, fewer than 1.2 billion people inhabited Earth. When Ehrlich'sPopulation Bombappeared in 1968, there were similar ...
    • Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; González Acuña, Daniel; Jiménez, Jaime E.; Bornscheuer, María Loreto; Funk, Stephan M.; Knapp, Leslie A. (Wildlife Disease Association, 2020)
      We found the ear mite parasite (Otodectes cynotis; Acari: Psoroptidae) in two distant insular endangered fox populations in Chile. We identified O. cynotis in both the Darwin's fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) from Chiloe and ...
    • Moreira Arce, Darío; Vergara, Pablo M.; Boutin, Stan; Simonetti Zambelli, Javier Andrés; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Acosta Jamett, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2015)
      Replacement of native forests by forest plantations may change the composition and abundance of small mammals, thus influencing the foraging behavior of mesocarnivores in these human-created habitats. We assessed how ...
    • Neira Ramírez, Víctor; Tapia, Rodrigo; Verdugo, Claudio; Barriga, Gonzalo; Mor, Sunil; Fei Fan Ng, Terry; García, Victoria; Río, José del; Rodrigues, Pedro; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Medina, Rafael A.; González Acuña, Daniel (Centers Disease Control, 2017)
    • Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Surot, Dominique; González Acuña, Daniel; Martínez, Francisco Javier; Fredes Martínez, Fernando (Brazilian College of Veterinary Parasitology, 2017)
      Central Chile has been identified as a unique ecosystem with high conservation priority because of its high levels of endemism and intensive anthropic pressure. Over a period of almost four decades, the monk parakeet has ...
    • Vila, Alejandro R.; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; McAloose, Denise; Seimon, Tracie A.; Armién, Anibal G.; Mauldin, Elizabeth A.; Be, Nicholas A.; Thissen, James B.; Hinojosa, Ana; Quezada, Manuel; Paredes, José; Avendaño, Iván; Silva, Alejandra; Uhart, Marcela M. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
      The huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) is an endangered cervid endemic to southern Argentina and Chile. Here we report foot lesions in 24 huemul from Bernardo O’Higgins National Park, Chile, between 2005 and 2010. Affected ...