Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CENMA)
Recent Submissions
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(Royal Society Publishing, 2017)Inducible, anti-predator traits are a classic example of phenotypic plasticity. Their evolutionary dynamics depend on their genetic basis, the historical pattern of predation risk that populations have experienced and ...
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(Springer, 2016)Interaction strength among species plays a crucial role in shaping the functioning of ecological communities, but it is often assumed to be insensitive to inter-individual variation in underlying parameters such as attack ...
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Do female Nicrophorus vespilloides reduce direct costs by choosing males that mate less frequently? (Royal Soc, 2016)Sexual conflict occurs when selection to maximize fitness in one sex does so at the expense of the other sex. In the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, repeated mating provides assurance of paternity at a direct cost ...
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(Royal Soc., 2015)Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a genotype to produce more than one phenotype in order to match the environment. Recent theory proposes that the major axis of genetic variation in a phenotypically plastic population ...
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(Springer, 2012)The coast of Chañaral Bay in northern Chile has been affected by copper mine wastes for decades. This sustained perturbation has disrupted the intertidal community in several ways, but the mechanisms behind the ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2011)Theoretical predictions suggest that adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and induced defenses in particular, exert a stabilizing effect on ecological systems and increase the likelihood of species coexistence. Nonetheless, ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2010)Daphnia exilis is a halophylic species that was recently found in Chile, distant from its natural range. In this study, we analyze the osmoregulatory and life-history responses to salinity exhibited by Daphnia exilis, ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)High concentration of fine airborne particulates is considered one of the major environmental pollutants in Santiago, the Chilean Capital city, which in 1997 was declared a PM10 saturated zone. To date there is no control ...
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(Elsevier, 2008)The performance of two laboratory-scale fluidized bed reactors with natural zeolite as support material when treating high-strength distillery wastewater was assessed. Two sets of experiments were carried out. In the first ...
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(Elsevier, 2007)Using the scanning electronic microscopy, it was observed that natural zeolite possesses excellent physical characteristics as a support medium in anaerobic fluidized bed reactors (AFBR). Samples for biomass analysis were ...
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(Elsevier, 2003)This paper estimates the true economic income for the Chilean mining sector, using the welfare foundations for the usual net domestic product (NDP) income measure of the traditional National Accounts System (NAS) provided ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2014)Production of diapausing eggs in many zooplankton species occurs after partial switching from parthenogenesis to sexual reproduction. Storage effect theory predicts the stable long-term coexistence of competitors ...
