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    • Aponte, Humberto; Herrera, Wence; Cameron, Clare; Black, Helaina; Meier, Sebastián; Paolini, Jorge; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Cornejo, Pablo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Copper (Cu) mining has to address a critical environmental issue related to the disposal of heavy metals and metalloids (HMs). Due to their deleterious effects on living organisms, Cu and arsenic (As) have gained global ...
    • Najera De Ferrari, Francisco; Dippold, Michaela A.; Boy, Jens; Seguel Seguel, Óscar; Koester, Moritz; Stock, Svenja; Merino, Carolina; Kuzyakov, Yakov; Matus, Francisco (Springer, 2020)
      Drying and rewetting (D/W) of soil have significant impacts on soil organic matter (SOM) turnover. We hypothesised that frequent D/W cycles would release the labile organic matter locked away in soil aggregates, increasing ...
    • Osorio, Rodrigo; Cáceres, Carla; Covarrubias Peña, José Ignacio (Springer, 2020)
      The nitrogen nutrition in blueberry has been studied by some authors; however, the effect of N-nitrate or N-ammoniacal fertilizers with nitrification inhibitors on plant growth and physiology has not been known. The aim ...
    • Piña Moraga, Luis F.; Balocchi, Oscar A.; Keim, Juan Pablo; Pulido, Rubén G.; Rosas, Felipe (MDPI, 2020)
    • Ramírez Albores, Jorge E.; Bizama, Gustavo; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro; Badano, Ernesto I. (Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, 2020)
      Background and aim - Invasive plants should only colonize habitats meeting the environmental conditions included in their native niches. However, if they invade habitats with novel environmental conditions, this can induce ...
    • Opazo Palma, Ismael; Toro, Guillermo; Salvatierra, Ariel; Pastenes Villarreal, Claudio; Pimentel, Paula (Elsevier, 2020)
      The effects of climate change have forced to search quickly new strategies to achieve sustainable agriculture in the context of a growing demand for food. Rootstocks have shown to have a key role in the resistance and ...
    • Garrido Salinas, Marco; Bown Intveen, Horacio; Ayamante, José; Orell Arenas, Magda; Sánchez, Andrea; Acevedo, Edmundo (Springer, 2020)
      Key message Prosopis tamarugo undergoes several modifications of its hydraulic architecture, which has a homeostatic effect on its performance under descent of phreatic level. Groundwater extraction for mining has generated ...
    • Orellana, Carla; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Arana, Wilmer; Escanilla Cruzat, Juan; Zavaleta, Carmen; Castellaro, Giorgio (MDPI, 2020)
      Simple Summary To adequately manage ruminants in extensive grazing, it is important to have non-invasive techniques to evaluate their nutritional status. Some of these techniques are based on the use of fecal indicators, ...
    • Amenábar Cristi, María; Holzapfel, Camila; Nehls, Medina; De Veer, Diamela; González, Camila; Holtmann, Geraldine; Honorato Zimmer, Daniela; Kiessling, Tim; Leyton Muñoz, Ailin; Narváez Reyes, Soledad; Núñez, Paloma; Sepúlveda, José Miguel; Vásquez, Nelson; Thiel, Martín (Elsevier, 2020)
      Single-use plastic bags (SUPBs) were introduced to society as a way to facilitate our daily lives, but due to their low post-use value they are found as litter in many different environments, from urban to rural and remote, ...
    • Ramírez, Paulina B.; Calderón, Francisco J.; Fonte, Steven J.; Santibáñez, Fernando; Bonilla, Carlos A. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Light fraction (LF) and permanganate-oxidizable C (PDXC) demonstrate high reliability as indicators for monitoring soil functioning in response to changes in soil organic carbon (SOC). However, mechanisms affecting the ...
    • Armijo, Julien; Oerder, Vera; Auger, Pierre-Amaël; Bravo Lizana, Angela; Molina, Ernesto (Elsevier, 2020)
      In 2016, a massive harmful algal bloom (HAB) of Alexandrium catenella around Chiloe island caused one of the major socio-ecological crisis in Chilean history. This red tide occurred in two distinct pulses, the second, most ...
    • Salazar, Osvaldo; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Najera, Francisco; Contreras, Américo; Tapia, Yasna (Springer, 2020)
      The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the maize-cover crop rotation (Zm-cc) in the soil net nitrogen mineralisation (NNM) by measuring in situ NNM incubation in the upper soil (0-25 cm) during spring-summer ...
    • Jordan, Teresa E.; Lohman, Rowena B.; Tapia, Lorenzo; Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Scott, Chelsea P.; Amundson, Ronald; Godfrey, Linda; Riquelme, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Ground-based monitoring and remote sensing of extreme rain events in the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile, reveal a complex relationship between precipitation, soil types and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) ...
    • Shi, Zhengyu; Carey, Manus; Meharg, Caroline; Williams, Paul N.; Signes Pastor, Antonio J.; Triwardhani, Eridha Ayu; Pandiangan, Febbyandi Isnanda; Campbell, Katrina; Elliott, Christopher; Marwa, Ernest M.; Jiujin, Xiao; Gomes Farías, Julia; Nicoloso, Fernando Teixeira; De Silva, P. Mangala C. S.; Lu, Ying; Norton, Gareth; Adomako, Eurek; Green, Andy J.; Moreno Jiménez, Eduardo; Zhu, Yongguan; Carbonell Barrachina, Ángel Antonio; Haris, Parvez I.; Lawgali, Youssef F.; Sommella, Alessia; Pigna, Massimo; Brabet, Catherine; Montet, Didier; Njira, Keston; Watts, Michael J.; Hossain, Mahmud; Islam, M. Rafiqul; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Oporto, Carla; Meharg, Andrew A. (Springer, 2020)
      One of cadmium's major exposure routes to humans is through rice consumption. The concentrations of cadmium in the global polished (white), market rice supply-chain were assessed in 2270 samples, purchased from retailers ...
    • Lordan, Jaume; Reginato Meza, Gabino; Lakso, Alan N.; Francescatto, Poliana; Robinson, Terence L. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Chemical thinning of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) has been practised for 50 years but it remains an unpredictable part of apple production with large variations from year to year and within years. Carbohydrate availability ...
    • Aros Orellana, Danilo; Garrido, Nicole; Rivas, Constanza; Medel-Marabolí, Marcela; Müller, Carsten; Rogers, Hilary; Úbeda, Cristina (MDPI, 2020)
      The main function of floral scent is to attract and guide pollinators, but it is also an important character in the ornamental plant industry. Several studies have considered the chemical evaluation of floral scent during ...
    • Tobar, M.; Fiore, Nicola; Pérez Donoso, A. G.; León, R.; Rosales, I. M.; Gambardella, M. (Nanjing Agricultural Univ, 2020)
      Grapevine rupestris stem pitting associated virus (GRSPaV) is one of the most widely distributed viruses; even so, little is known about its effect on Vitis vinifera. To provide new insights, the effects of single and mixed ...
    • Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Padarian, José; Osorio, Rodrigo; Bustamante, Nelson; Olmedo, Guillermo Federico; Guevara, Mario; Aburto, Felipe; Albornoz, Francisco; Antilen, Mónica; Araya, Elías; Arellano, Eduardo; Barret, Maialen; Barrera, Juan; Boeckx, Pascal; Briceño, Margarita; Bunning, Sally; Cabrol, Lea; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Cornejo, Pablo; Corradini, Fabio; Curaqueo, Gustavo; Doetterl, Sebastián; Durán, Paola; Escudey, Mauricio; Espinoza, Angelina; Francke, Samuel; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Fuentes, Marcel; Gajardo, Gonzalo; García, Rafael; Gallaud, Audrey; Galleguillos Torres, Mauricio; Gómez, Andrés; Hidalgo, Marcela; Ivelic Sáez, Jorge; Mashalaba, Lwando; Matus, Francisco; Meza, Francisco; Mora, María de la Luz; Mora, Jorge; Muñoz, Cristina; Norambuena, Pablo; Olivera, Carolina; Ovalle, Carlos; Panichini, Marcelo; Pauchard, Aníbal; Pérez Quezada, Jorge; Radic, Sergio; Ramírez, José; Riveras, Nicolás; Ruiz, Germán; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Salgado, Iván; Seguel Seguel,Óscar; Sepúlveda, María; Sierra, Carlos; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Tapia, Francisco; Toledo, Balfredo; Torrico, José Miguel; Valle, Susana; Vargas, Ronald; Wolff, Michael; Zagal, Erick (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2020)
      A critical aspect of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations is the lack of available soil information; where information on soil characteristics is available, it is usually focused on regions of high agricultural ...
    • Campos Medina, Verónica; Araya, Jaime E.; Zuazúa, Francisco (Universidad de Concepción, 2020)
      The feeding behavior of the generalist predator Nabis punctipennis Blanchard (Nabidae) on Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris (Aphididae), two hemipterans common in alfalfa in Chile, was studied in a laboratory experiment using A. ...
    • Boza Martínez, Sofía; Muñoz, Jazmín; Núñez Mejía, Aracely; Díaz Lanchas, Jorge (Universidad de Concepción, 2020)
      Forest and agricultural exports, particularly fruit exports, are one of the backbones of the Chilean economy. In general, the study of this type of exports has been approached from a local perspective, regardless of the ...