Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas: Recent submissions

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    • Application of a cloud removal algorithm for snow-covered areas from daily MODIS imagery over andes mountains 
      Mattar, Cristian; Fuster Gómez, Rodrigo; Peréz, Tomás (MDPI, 2022)
      Snow cover area is dramatically decreasing across the Los Andes Mountains and the most relevant water reservoir under drought conditions. In this sense, monitoring of snow cover is key to analyzing the hydrologic balance ...
    • Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications ... 
      Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Chinchilla Soto, Cristina; Santos Villalobos, Sergio de los; Ayala, Marisol; Benavides, Luciano; Berriel, Verónica; Cardoso, Renán; Chavarrí, Eduardo; Dos Anjos, Roberto Meigikos; González, Alba Liz; Nario, Adrano; Samudio, Antonio; Villarreal, José; Sibello Hernández, Rita; Govan, Joseph; Heng, Lee (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, 2022)
      O. Salazar, C. Chinchilla-Soto, S. de los Santos-Villalobos, M. Ayala, L. Benavides, V. Berriel, R. Cardoso, E. Chavarri, R. Meigikos dos Anjos, A.L. Gonzalez, A. Nario, A. Samudio, J. Villarreal, R. Sibello-Hernandez, J. ...
    • Representaciones sociales del cambio climático de los adultos mayores de la comuna de Rinconada de Los ... 
      Fuentes Pereira, Claudia Constanza (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      El diseño e implementación de políticas públicas demanda cambios institucionales, sociales, culturales y conductuales, ante los cuales el estudio de los factores sociales y psicológicos del cambio climático pueden jugar ...
    • Canopy gap structure as an indicator of intact, old-growth temperate rainforests in the Valdivian ecoregion 
      Gutiérrez Ilabaca, Alvaro Guillermo; Chávez, Roberto O.; Díaz Hormazábal, Ignacio (MDPI, 2021)
      Forest degradation continues to increase globally, threatening biodiversity and the survival of species. In this context, identifying intact, old-growth forest stands is both urgent and vital to ensure their existence ...
    • Agro-industrial utilization of cactus pear 
      Sáenz Hernández, Carmen Luisa; Berger, Horst; Rodríguez-Félix, Armida; Galletti, Ljubica; Corrales García, Joel; Sepúlveda, Elena; Varnero Moreno, María Teresa; García de Cortázar, Víctor; Cuevas García, Roberto; Arias, Enrique; Mondragón, Candelario; Higuera, Inocencio; Rosell, Cadmo (FAO, 2013)
      Cactus pear (Opuntia spp.) makes a valuable contribution to the food security and nutrition of people throughout the world wherever water is scarce. The plant is highly versatile and, in addition to feeding people, it is ...
    • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade 
      Dorigo, Wouter; Himmelbauer, Irene; Aberer, Daniel; Schremmer, Lukas; Petrakovic, Ivana; Zappa, Luca; Preimesberger, Wolfgang; Xaver, Angelika; Annor, Frank; Ardo, Jonas; Baldocchi, Dennis; Bitelli, Marco; Bloeschl, Gunter; Bogena, Heye; Brocca, Luca; Calvet, Jean Christophe; Julio Camarero, J.; Capello, Giorgio; Choi, Minha; Cosh, Michael C.; van de Giesen, Nick; Hajdu, Istvan; Ikonen, Jaakko; Jensen, Karsten H.; Kanniah, Kasturi Devi; de Kat, Ileen; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Rai, Pankaj Kumar; Kyrouac, Jenni; Larson, Kristine; Liu, Suxia; Loew, Alexander; Moghaddam, Mahta; Martínez Fernández, José; Mattar Bader, Cristian; Morbidelli, Renato; Musial, Jan P.; Osenga, Elise; Palecki, Michael A.; Pellarin, Thierry; Petropoulos, George P.; Pfeil, Isabella; Powers, Jarrett; Robock, Alan; Rudiger, Christoph; Rummel, Udo; Strobel, Michael; Su, Zhongbo; Sullivan, Ryan; Tagesson, Torbern; Varlagin, Andrej; Vreugdenhil, Mariette; Walker, Jeffrey; Wen, Jun; Wenger, Fred; Wigneron, Jean Pierre; Woods, Mel; Yang, Kun; Zeng, Yijian; Zhang, Xiang; Zreda, Marek; Dietrich, Stephan; Gruber, Alexander; van Oevelen, Peter; Wagner, Wolfgang; Scipal, Klaus; Drusch, Matthias; Sabia, Roberto (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2021)
      In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort, funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for globally available in situ soil moisture ...
    • Determining actual evapotranspiration based on machine learning and sinusoidal approaches applied to thermal ... 
      Reyes Rojas, Luis A.; Moletto Lobos, Italo Giuliano; Corradini Santander, Fabio Alfonso; Mattar Bader, Cristian; Fuster Gómez, Rodrigo; Escobar Avaria, Cristián Andrés (MDPI, 2021)
      Evapotranspiration (ET) is key to assess crop water balance and optimize water-use efficiency. To attain sustainability in cropping systems, especially in semi-arid ecosystems, it is necessary to improve methodologies of ...
    • Reducción de externalidades negativas por aprovechamiento de residuos en el desarrollo de productos: economía ... 
      Falcón, Werther Kern; Schwartz Melgar, Marco; Marchant Silva, Ricardo (Universidad Nacional de Trujillo (Perú) Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, 2022)
      The circular economy, as a factor of sustainable development, is an innovative practice of resource allocation that considers the production of goods and the reuse of their waste. Society values the circular economy, since ...
    • First record and distributional extension to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) of the slipper lobster scyllarides ... 
      Báez, Pedro; Araneda Tolosa, Cristian; Burns, Ludovic; Navarrete, Claudia (Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, 2022)
      A male specimen of the Aesop slipper lobster Scyllarides haanii was found in the coastal vicinity of Ahu Tongariki (27 degrees 07'33 '' S, 109 degrees 16'37 '' W), Rapa Nui. Its taxonomic determination was carried out by ...
    • Genotype variation of citrus tristeza virus after passage on different hosts, and changes in the virus ... 
      Camps, Rocío; Fiore, Nicola; Riquelme, Natalia; Barros Parada, Wilson; Besoain, Ximena (Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Italia, 2022)
      Phylogenetic analyses categorize seven genotypes of citrus tristeza virus (CTV). The symptoms caused by this pathogen, their expression and severity are influenced by CTV genotypes, host species, cultivars, and infected ...
    • Use of fecal indices as a non-invasive tool for ruminal activity evaluation in extensive grazing sheep 
      Orellana, Carla; Castellaro Galdames, Giorgio; Escanilla Cruzat, Juan Pablo; Parraguez Gamboa, Victor (MDPI, 2022)
      Simple Summary The main objective of this work was to evaluate the degree of association that exists between three fecal indices (concentrations of 2,6 diaminopimelic acid, nitrogen, and phosphorus) and biomarkers of ruminal ...
    • Photoprotection is achieved by photorespiration and modification of the leaf incident light, and their ... 
      Villalobos González, Luis; Alarcón, Nicolás; Bastías Silva, Roberto; Pérez, Cristóbal; Sanz Pizarro, René; Peña Neira, Alvaro; Pastenes Villarreal, Claudio (MDPI, 2022)
      Absorbed energy in excess of that used by photosynthesis induces photoinhibition, which is common in water deficit conditions, resulting in reductions in stomatal conductance. In grapevines, controlled water deficit is a ...
    • Mapping the provision of cultural ecosystem services in large cities: the case of The Andean piedmont in ... 
      Álvarez Codoceo, Soledad Paz; Cerda Jiménez, Claudia; Pérez Quezada, Jorge F. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Large cities are both centers of demand for cultural ecosystem services (CES) and a source of environmental impacts. Assessing CES yields information to reduce the vulnerability of these services to such environmental impacts ...
    • Evidence of climate change based on lake surface temperature trends in south central Chile 
      Collazo Aranda, Arnaldo Evaristo; Rivera Ruiz, Daniela; Rodríguez López, Lien; Pedreros, Pablo; Arumí Ribera, José Luis; Morales Salinas, Luis José; Fuentes Jaque, Guillermo Servando; Urrutia, Roberto (MDPI, 2021)
      Lake temperature has proven to act as a good indicator of climate variability and change. Thus, a surface temperature analysis at different temporal scales is important, as this parameter influences the physical, chemical, ...
    • El cultivo del duraznero hacia el siglo XXI 
      Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo Arturo; Giacinti, Miguel Ángel; Contador, Loreto; Echeverría, Gemma; Lillo, Verónica; Meneses, Claudio; Pacheco, Igor; Uribe, Rodrigo; Iglesias, Ignasi (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, 2022)
    • What skills do agricultural professionals need in the transition towards a sustainable agriculture? a ... 
      Sorensen, Laura Brandt; Germundsson, Lisa Blix; Hansen, Stine Rosenlund; Rojas, Claudia; Kristensen, Niels Heine (MDPI, 2021)
      Agriculture is facing mounting challenges across the globe and must move towards more sustainable practices to combat climate change and meet changed production requirements. Education has been acknowledged as highly ...
    • Practices and strategies for adaptation to climate variability in family farming. an analysis of cases of ... 
      Marchant Santiago, Carla; Rodríguez Díaz, Paulina; Morales Salinas, Luis José; Betancourt, Liliana Paz; Ortega Fernández, Luis (MDPI, 2021)
      Climate variability imposes greater challenges on family farming and especially on rural communities in vulnerable mountainous regions such as the Andes in Latin America. Changes in rainfall patterns and fluctuations in ...
    • Unravelling the molecular regulation mechanisms of slow ripening trait in prunus persica 
      Núñez Lillo, Gerardo; Ulloa Zepeda, Lissette; Pávez, Catalina; Riveros, Aníbal; Blanco Herrera, Francisca; Campos Vargas, Reinaldo; Pedreschi, Romina; Meneses, Claudio (MDPI, 2021)
      Fruit development is a complex process that involves the interplay of cell division, expansion, and differentiation. As a model to study fruit development, nectarines incapable of ripening were described as slow ripening. ...
    • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation 
      Joswig, Julia S.; Wirth, Christian; Schuman, Meredith C.; Kattge, Jens; Reu, Björn; Wright, Ian J.; Sippel, Sebastian D.; Rüger, Nadja; Richter, Ronny; Schaepman, Michael E.; Van Bodegom, Peter M.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Díaz, Sandra; Hattingh, Wesley N.; Kramer, Koen; Lens, Frederic; Niinemets, Ülo; Reich, Peter B.; Reichstein, Markus; Römermann, Christine; Schrodt, Franziska; Anand, Madhur; Bahn, Michael; Byun, Chaeho; Campetella, Giandiego; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Craine, Joseph M.; González Melo, Andrés; Gutiérrez Ilabaca, Álvaro Guillermo; He, Tianhua; Higuchi, Pedro; Jactel, Hervé; Kraft, Nathan J. B.; Minden, Vanessa; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Peñuelas, Josep; Pillar, Valério D.; Sosinski, Ênio; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Weiher, Evan; Mahecha, Miguel D. (Nature, 2022)
      Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how ...
    • La contribución del cooperativismo agrario al desarrollo territorial: hallazgos a partir de casos en Chile ... 
      Rodríguez Miranda, Adrián; Boza Martínez, Sofía; Núñez, Aracely (Univ Zaragoza Dev Cooperation Chair, 2021)
      El cooperativismo agrario es un fenómeno arraigado en América Latina, al tiempo que el desarrollo territorial está cada vez más presente en las políticas públicas y en las estrategias de las comunidades. El presente artículo ...