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    • Fleury, Marina; Silla, Fernando; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Do Couto, Hilton; Galetti, Mauro (ELSEVIER, 2015)
      The impact of extinction of predators and subsequent herbivore release on ecosystem functioning has been well studied in temperate ecosystems, yet we have very little information on threatened tropical rainforests. Herbivore ...
    • Corvalán Vera, Carlos Patricio (Univ. Pinar Rio Hermanos Saiz Montes Oca, 2020)
      The production of poles in Chile is done by choosing trees specially selected for that purpose, however, the forestry that is massively applied is oriented to the simultaneous production of pruned, sawn and pulpable logs. ...
    • Donoso, Pablo J.; Promis Baeza, Álvaro Andrés; Loguercio, Gabriel A.; Attis Beltrán, Hernán; Caselli, Marina; Chauchard, Luis M.; Cruz, Gustavo; González Peñalba, Marcelo; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo; Navarro, Celso; Núñez, Patricio; Salas Eljatib, Christian; Soto, Daniel P.; Vásquez Grandón, Angélica (SCION, 2022)
      Background: South America has the largest area of temperate forests in the Southern Hemisphere, which grow in diverse site conditions. The aim of this paper is to review the practices of silviculture applied and recommended ...
    • Bidegain, Iñigo; López Santiago, César; González, José A.; Martínez Sastre, Rodrigo; Ravera, Federica; Cerda Jiménez, Claudia Loreto (MDPI, 2020)
      Mediterranean cultural landscapes have been recognized as multifunctional landscapes that are currently threatened by two opposing trends: rural abandonment and agricultural intensification. Uncovering people's perceptions ...
    • Klein, Daniel; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Schmidt, Andreas; Schmidt Van Marle, Harald; Schulte, Andreas (ELSEVIER, 2008-05-30)
      This study evaluates the effect of silvicultural and exploitative interventions on soil organic carbon (SOC) in Chilean Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio (Poepp et Endl.) Krasser) forests in south Patagonia. We analyzed SOC and ...
    • Bown Intveen, Horacio; Franck Berger, Nicolás; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Pérez Quezada, Jorge (2014)
      Sclerophyllous shrubs and forests are predominant in semiarid Central Chile and have a long history of degradation by fire, cultivation, firewood extraction and grazing. The aim of this study was to compare the amount ...
    • Sanguesa, Claudia; Pizarro, Roberto; Ibañez, Alfredo; Pino, Juan; Rivera, Diego; García Chevesich, Pablo; Ingram, Ben (MDPI, 2018)
      This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970-2016 and distributed between 29 degrees ...
    • Zhu, Zhi-Xin; Harris, A. J.; Nizamani, Mir Muhammad; Thornhill, Andrew H.; Scherson Vicencio, Rosa; Wang, Hua-Feng (Wiley, 2021)
      To better identify biodiversity hotspots for conservation on Hainan Island, a tropical island in southern China, we assessed spatial variation in phylogenetic diversity and species richness using 18,976 georeferenced ...
    • Scherson Vicencio, Rosa; Thornhill, Andrew H.; Urbina Casanova, Rafael; Freyman, William A.; Pliscoff, Patricio; Mishler, Brent D. (Elsevier, 2017)
      Current geographic patterns of biodiversity are a consequence of the evolutionary history of the lineages that comprise them. This study was aimed at exploring how evolutionary features of the vascular flora of Chile are ...
    • Escobedo, Francisco J.; Palmas Pérez, Sebastián; Dobbs, Cynnamon; Gezan, Salvador; Hernández Palma, Héctor (MDPI, 2016)
      There is little information on how urban forest ecosystems in South America and Mediterranean climates change across both space and time. This study statistically and spatially analyzed the spatio-temporal dynamics of ...
    • Cortés L., Acuña M.P., Hernández H.J. (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020)
    • Cerda Jiménez, Claudia; Bidegain, Iñigo (Springer, 2018)
      In most conservation programs that include public participation, the word "biodiversity" is used. However, many variables influence the public understanding of the term and determine what biodiversity means to local ...
    • Bown Intveen, Horacio; Watt, Michael (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía Ingeniería Forestal, 2016)
      Stem CO2 efflux is a highly variable component of the carbon budget of forest ecosystems. It reflects the balance between the CO2 respired by the living stem tissues, less the CO2 dissolved in the xylem sap moving upward ...
    • Latifi, Hooman; Fassnachtb, Fabian; Hartig, Florian; Berger, Christian; Hernández, Jaime; Corvalán Vera, Carlos; Koch, Barbara (Elsevier, 2015)
      Remote sensing-assisted estimates of aboveground forest biomass are essential for modeling carbon budgets. It has been suggested that estimates can be improved by building species- or strata-specific biomass models. ...
    • Huerta Fuentes, Amanda; Chiffelle Gómez, Italo; Serrano Garzón, Maryi; Vázquez Silva, Tatiana; Araya Clericus, Jaime (COLEGIO DE POSTGRADUADOS, 2008-05)
      In Chile, the Australian weevil Gonipterus scutellatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), specific to eucalyptus, was first detected in 1998. It has spread trough the IV to IX Regions and could affect more than 525 ...
    • Dillon, Michael O.; Luebert Bruron, Federico José (2014)
      A synopsis of Plazia Ruiz & Pav. (Onoserideae, Asteraceae) is presented, including the description of a new species, Plazia robinsonii M.O.Dillon & Sagást., from a locality c. 20 km west of Huamachuco, Department of La ...
    • Marín, Juan C.; Zapata, Beatriz; González, Benito; Bonacic, Cristian; Wheeler, Jane C.; Casey, Ciara; Bruford, Michael W.; Palma, R. Eduardo; Poulin, Elie; Alliende Rodríguez, María Angélica; Spotorno Oyarzún, Ángel (2007)
      Four camelid species exist in South America: two wild, the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) and the vicuna (Victigna vicugna), and two domestic, the alpaca (Lama pacos) and the llama (Lama glama). However, the origin of the domestic ...
    • González, Benito; Palma, R. Eduardo; Zapata, Beatriz; Marín, Juan C. (BLACKWELL, 2006-04)
      1. We review the status of the four currently recognized guanaco Lama guanicoe subspecies, and provide information about their taxonomy and distribution. The success of guanaco in inhabiting open habitats of South America ...
    • Julio Alvear, Guillermo; Molina Martínez, Juan Ramón; Castillo Soto, Miguel; Rodríguez y Silva, Francisco (Elsevier, 2013-01)
      A forest fire riskmodelwas designed and applied to a South AmericanMediterranean ecosystem, taking into consideration three analysis groups: fire risk; danger of fire spread, or propagation; and damage potential over ...
    • Grace, Molly K.; Akçakaya, H. Resit; Bennett, Elizabeth L.; Brooks, Thomas M.; Heath, Anna; Hedges, Simón; Hilton Taylor, Craig; Hoffmann, Michael; Hochkirch, Axel; Jenkins, Richard; Keith, David A.; Long, Barney; Mallon, David P.; Meijaard, Erik; Milner Gulland, E. J.; Rodríguez, Jon Paul; Stephenson, P. J.; Stuart, Simón N; Young, Richard P.; Acebes, Pablo; Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna; Álvarez Clare, Silvia; Andriantsimanarilafy, Raphali Rodlis; Arbetman, Marina; Azat, Claudio; Bacchetta, Gianluigi; Badola, Ruchi; Barcelos, Luis M. D.; Barreiros, Joao Pedro; Basak, Sayanti; Berger, Danielle J.; Bhattacharyya, Sabuj; Bino, Gilad; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Boughton, Raoul K.; Brockmann, H. Jane; Buckley, Hannah L.; Burfield, Ian J.; Burton, James; Camacho Badani, Teresa; Cano Alonso, Luis Santiago; Carmichael, Ruth H.; Carrero, Christina; Carroll, John P.; Catsadorakis, Giorgos; Chapple, David G.; Chapron, Guillaume; Chowdhury, Gawsia Wahidunnessa; Claassens, Louw; Cogoni, Donatella; Constantine, Rochelle; Craig, Christie Anne; Cunningham, Andrew A.; Dahal, Nishma; Daltry, Jennifer C.; Das, Goura Chandra; Dasgupta, Niladri; Davey, Alexandra; Davies, Katharine; Develey, Pedro; Elangovan, Vanitha; Fairclough, David; Di Febbraro, Mirko; Fenu, Giuseppe; Fernandes, Fernando Moreira; Fernández, Eduardo Pinheiro; Finucci, Brittany; Földesi, Rita; Foley, Catherine M.; Ford, Matthew; Forstner, Michael R. J.; García, Néstor; García Sandoval, Ricardo; Gardner, Penny C.; Garibay Orijel, Roberto; Gatan Balbas, Marites; Gauto, Irene; Ullah Ghazi, Mirza Ghazanfar; Godfrey, Stephanie S.; Gollock, Matthew; González Pérez, Benito Alejandro; Grant, Tandora D.; Gray, Thomas; Gregory, Andrew J.; Van Grunsven, Roy H. A.; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Guernsey, Noelle C.; Gupta, Garima; Hagen, Christina; Hagen, Christian A.; Hall, Madison B.; Hallerman, Eric; Hare, Kelly; Hart, Tom; Hartdegen, Ruston; Harvey Brown, Yvette; Hatfield, Richard; Hawke, Tahneal; Hermes, Claudia; Hitchmough, Rod; Hoffmann, Pablo Melo; Howarth, Charlie; Hudson, Michael A.; Hussain, Syed Ainul; Huveneers, Charlie; Jacques, Hélène; Jorgensen, Dennis; Katdare, Suyash; Katsis, Lydia K. D.; Kaul, Rahul; Kaunda Arara, Boaz; Keith Diagne, Lucy; Kraus, Daniel T.; Moreira de Lima, Thales; Lindeman, Ken; Linsky, Jean; Louis Jr., Edward; Loy, Anna; Lughadha, Eimear Nic; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Marinari, Paul E.; Martin, Gabriel M.; Martinelli, Gustavo; McGowan, Philip J. K.; McInnes, Alistair; Barbosa Mendes, Eduardo Teles; Millard, Michael J.; Mirande, Claire; Money, Daniel; Monks, Joanne M; Morale, Carolina Laura; Mumu, Nazia Naoreen; Negrao, Raquel; Nguyen, Anh Ha; Hasan Nilo, Md. Nazmul; Norbury, Grant Leslie; Nordmeyer, Cale; Norris, Darren; O’Brien, Mark; Oda, Gabriela Akemi; Orsenigo, Simone; Outerbridge, Mark Evan; Pasachnik, Stesha; Pérez Jiménez, Juan Carlos; Pike, Charlotte; Pilkington, Fred; Plumb, Glenn; Quitete Portela, Rita de Cassia; Prohaska, Ana; Quintana, Manuel G.; Rakotondrasoa, Eddie Fanantenana; Ranglack, Dustin H.; Rankou, Hassan; Rawat, Ajay Prakash; Reardon, James Thomas; Lopes Rheingantz, Marcelo; Richter, Stephen C.; Rivers, Malin C.; Rogers, Luke Rollie; Da Rosa, Patricia; Rose, Paul; Royer, Emily; Ryan, Catherine; De Mitcheson, Yvonne J. Sadovy; Salmon, Lily; Salvador, Carlos Henrique; Samways, Michael J.; Sanjuan, Tatiana; Souza Dos Santos, Amanda; Sasaki, Hiroshi; Schutz, Emmanuel; Scott, Heather Ann; Scott, Robert Michael; Serena, Fabrizio; Sharma, Surya P.; Shuey, John A.; Silva, Carlos Julio Polo; Simaika, John P.; Smith, David R.; Spaet, Julia L.Y.; Sultana, Shanjida; Talukdar, Bibhab Kumar; Tatayah, Vikash; Thomas, Philip; Tringali, Angela; Trinh Dinh, Hoang; Tuboi, Chongpi; Usmani, Aftab Alam; Vasco Palacios, Aída M.; Vié, Jean Christophe; Virens, Jo; Walker, Alan; Wallace, Bryan; Waller, Lauren J.; Wang, Hongfeng; Wearn, Oliver R.; Van Weerd, Merlijn; Weigmann, Simon; Willcox, Daniel; Woinarski, John; Yong, Jean W. H.; Young, Stuart (Wiley, 2021)
      Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a “Green List of Species” (now the IUCN Green ...