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Unusual past dry and wet rainy seasons over Southern Africa and South America from a climate perspective
(Elsevier, 2015-09)
Southern Africa and Southern South America have experienced recent extremes in dry and wet rainy seasons which have caused severe socio-economic damages. Selected past extreme events are here studied, to estimate how human ...
The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: challenges and opportunities
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020-01)
The complex links and feedbacks between ecosystems and people are now sharply in focus. Our growing understandings of the complex relations between ecosystems and people, the social and ecological drivers of changes in ...
Reconsidering Ocean Calamities
(American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2015-02)
The proliferation of a number of pressures affecting the ocean is leading to a growing concern that the state of the ocean is compromised, which is driving society into pessimism. Ocean calamities are disruptive changes ...
Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands
(Wiley, 2020-02)
1. Multiple ecosystem functions need to be considered simultaneously to manage and protect the several ecosystem services that are essential to people and their environments. Despite this, cost effective, tangible, relatively ...
Microbial processing of plant remains is co‐limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands
(Wiley, 2020-06)
Microbial processing of aggregate‐unprotected organic matter inputs is key for soil fertility, long‐term ecosystem carbon and nutrient sequestration and sustainable agriculture. We investigated the effects of adding multiple ...
Generalized and Specific State-and-Transition Models to Guide Management and Restoration of Caldenal Forests
(Society for Range Management, 2019-03)
Management impacts and natural events can produce ecosystem state changes that are difficult to reverse. In such cases, a detailed understanding of drivers, thresholds, and feedback mechanisms are needed to design restoration ...
Habitat fragmentation is linked to cascading effects on soil functioning and CO2 emissions in Mediterranean holm-oak-forests
(PeerJ, 2018-10-30)
We studied key mechanisms and drivers of soil functioning by analyzing soil respirationand enzymatic activity in Mediterranean holm oak forest fragments with different influence of the agricultural matrix. For this, ...
Effects of bioenergy on biodiversity arising from land-use change and crop type
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-12-19)
Understanding how the world's flora and fauna will respond to bioenergy expansion is critical. This issue is particularly pronounced considering bioenergy's potential role as a driver of land‐use change, the variety of ...
Land use and land cover in irrigated drylands: a long-term analysis of changes in the Mendoza and Tunuyán River basins, Argentina (1986–2018)Uso y cobertura del suelo en tierras secas irrigadas: un análisis a largo plazo de los cambios en las cuencas de los ríos Mendoza y Tunuyán, Argentina (1986-2018)
(Springer, 2020-02)
Los procesos de expansión y retroceso agrícola han provocado un debate global emergente y han impulsado una investigación más centrada, debido a sus consecuencias socioambientales. Este documento evalúa los cambios de LU ...
Turismo y naturaleza preservada en America Latina: cambios y continuidades en el paradigma de la sustentabilidadTourism and preserved nature in Latin America: changes and continuities within the framework of the sustainability paradigm
(Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano. Escuela de Geografía, 2020-12)
El texto tiene por objetivo analizar la valorización turística de la naturaleza sujeta a instancias de preservación, en las denominadas en general áreas de protección ambiental, en América Latina. Si bien su interés se ...