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    • Villaseñor Pérez, Nélida; Escobar, Martín A. H. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Billions of wild animals migrate every year between breeding and non-breeding sites, facing new environmental conditions due to anthropogenic change. Although cities engender profound environmental changes, they provide ...
    • Huerta Fuentes, Amanda Isabel; Chiffelle Gómez, Ítalo Alfonso; Araya, Laura; Curkovic Sekul, Tomislav Merko; Araya, Jaime E. (Soc Colombiana Entomologia-Socolen, 2021)
      Among a series of exotic pests that have been reported in Chile, Xanthogaleruca luteola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a defoliating insect of elms (Ulmus spp.), is causing important damage in urban trees in central Chile. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Badaracco, Carolain; Huerta Fuentes, Amanda; Palma, Álvaro (Universidad de Concepción, Chile, 2021)
      El Humedal de Batuco (Región Metropolitana, Chile) se sitúa en uno de los sitios prioritarios de conservación de biodiversidad de la zona Central de Chile. Dada la escasa información acerca de su fauna entomológica, se ...
    • Muñoz Pacheco, Catalina Beatriz; Villasenor, Nelida (Springer, 2021)
      South America sustains an important part of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and its population is highly urbanized. Global syntheses have revealed a paucity of urban ecological research in the region; however, local ...
    • Zhang, Caifei; Huang, Chien‐Hsun; Liu, Mian; Hu, Yi; Panero, José L.; Luebert Bruron, Federico José; Gao, Tiangang; Ma, Hong (Wiley, 2021)
      Biodiversity is not evenly distributed among related groups, raising questions about the factors contributing to such disparities. The sunflower family (Asteraceae, >26,000 species) is among the largest and most diverse ...
    • Mesas, Andrés; Baldi, Ricardo; González Pérez, Benito Alejandro; Burgi, Virginia; Chávez, Alexandra; Johnson, Warren E.; Marín, Juan C. (MDPI, 2021)
      Extensive livestock production and urbanization entail modifications of natural landscapes, including installation of fences, development of agriculture, urbanization of natural areas, and construction of roads and ...
    • Andivia, Enrique; Villar Salvador, Pedro; Oliet, Juan A.; Puertolas, Jaime; Dumroese, R. Kasten; Ivetic, Vladan; Molina Venegas, Rafael; Arellano, Eduardo C.; Li, Guolei; Ovalle Ortega, Juan Francisco (Wiley, 2021)
      Seedling planting plays a key role in active forest restoration and regeneration of managed stands. Plant attributes at outplanting can determine tree seedling survival and consequently early success of forest plantations. ...
    • Lutz Ley, América N.; Scott, Christopher A.; Wilder, Margaret; Varady, Robert G.; Ocampo Melgar, Anahi; Lara Valencia, Francisco; Zúñiga Teran, Adriana A.; Buechler, Stephanie; Díaz Cervantes, Rolando; Ribeiro Neto, Alfredo; Pineda Pablos, Nicolás; Martín, Facundo (Elsevier, 2021)
      Addressing wicked problems challenging water security requires participation from multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting visions, complicating the attainment of water-security goals and heightening the need for ...
    • Castillo Soto, Miguel Angel; Saavedra, Jorge; Quiñones, Tomás; Osses, Tatiana; Torres, María José (MDPI, 2021)
      The spatial and temporal behavior of the occurrence of forest fires in Chile was evaluated in the presence of COVID-19 and mobility restrictions. The fire period from 2015–2016 to 2020–2021 was considered and statistics ...
    • Barría Sandoval, Pilar Andrea; Barría Sandoval, Ignacio; Guzmán, Carlos; Chadwick I, Cristián; Álvarez Garretón, Camila; Díaz Vasconcellos, Raúl Andrés; Ocampo Melgar, Anahi; Fuster Gómez, Rodrigo (University of California, USA, 2021)
      Chile is positioned in the 20th rank of water availability per capita. Nonetheless, water security levels vary across the territory. Around 70% of the national population lives in arid and semiarid regions, where a persistent ...
    • Kutchartt, Erico; Gayoso, Jorge; Pirotti, Francesco; Bucarey, Álvaro; Guerra, Javier; Hernández Palma, Héctor Jaime; Corvalán Vera, Carlos Patricio; Drápela, Karel; Olson, Mark; Zwanzig, Martin (SISEF-Soc Italiana Selvicoltura Ecol Forestale, 2021)
      Estimating carbon stocks in wooded systems is crucial to quantify national greenhouse gas balance estimates. However, inaccurate estimates are likely due to the divergent architecture of many species. The monkey puzzle ...
    • Santos Carvallo, Macarena; Barilari, Fernanda; Pérez Álvarez, María José; Gutiérrez, Laura; Pavez, Guido; Araya, Héctor; Anguita, Cristóbal; Cerda, Claudia; Sepúlveda, Maritza (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Whale-watching (WW) is an activity which has been increasing worldwide due to the great interest of tourists and the economic benefits it provides to local communities. However, it has been reported that this activity ...
    • Espinoza, Sergio E.; Yáñez, Marco A.; Martínez Herrera, Eduardo Enrique; Carrasco Benavides, Marcos Rodrigo; Vaswani Miranda, Suraj Antonio; Gajardo, John; Magni Díaz, Carlos Renato (Nature, 2021)
      Forest restoration have had limited success due to intense and prolonged droughts in Mediterraneantype ecosystems. In this context, knowledge of growth and physiology in seedlings of different provenances can be useful ...
    • Schapheer, Constanza; Pellens, Roseli; Scherson Vicencio, Rosa (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Recent reports indicate that the health of our planet is getting worse and that genuine transformative changes are pressing. So far, efforts to ameliorate Earth’s ecosystem crises have been insufficient, as these often ...
    • 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 ...
    • KC, Mohan; Mason, Euan G.; Bown Intveen, Horacio Eduardo (Northeast Forestry Univ, China, 2021)
      Silvicultural practices applied in managed forest plantations may help counteract the effects of climate change by influencing soil surface CO2 efflux (Fs). Understanding the effects of silvicultural practices on Fs ...
    • Chadwick Irarrázaval, Cristián; Gironás, Jorge; Barría Sandoval, Pilar Andrea; Vicuña, Sebastián; Meza, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Climate change is modifying the way we design and operate water infrastructure, including reservoirs. A particular issue is that current infrastructure and reservoir management rules will likely operate under changing ...
    • Fassnacht, Fabian Ewald; Schmidt-Riese, Ephraim; Kattenborn, Teja; Hernández Palma, Héctor Jaime (Elsevier, 2021)
      Characterizing the spatial variability of the severity of wildfires is important to assess ecological and economic consequences and to coordinate mitigation strategies. Vegetation indices such as the differenced Normalized ...
    • Henríquez Piskulich, Patricia A.; Schapheer Carrasco, Constanza Patricia; Vereecken, Nicolás J.; Villagra, Cristian (MDPI, 2021)
      Industrial agriculture (IA) has been recognized among the main drivers of biodiversity loss, climate change, and native pollinator decline. Here we summarize the known negative effects of IA on pollinator biodiversity and ...