Sustainable forest management aims to both enhance biodiversity and tree productivity. However, trade-offs may exist between these objectives, e.g. arthropod diversity and associated arthropod herbivory can reduce tree ...

Extensive areas of native vegetation have been cleared to establish commercial exotic tree plantations in south-central Chile, a region known as a world biodiversity hotspot. Despite increasing societal demands to restore ...

Current forestry practices in Chile largely rely on exotic tree plantations, and limited management experiences are available for the species-rich native evergreen rain forests. Yet, conservationists and forest scientists ...

El sector sucro-alcoholero es la principal actividad económica de Tucumán, durante la zafra coexisten dos sistemas de cosecha: Semimecanizada: corte y apilado manual, limpieza mediante uso de fuego (afecta el sistema ...

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are globally weaker than unruptured ones. Methods: Four ruptured and seven unruptured AAA specimens were harvested whole from fresh cadavers ...

Anchored in the practices and knowledge of traditional peoples and communities, and in the dialogue of this knowledge with science, agroecology seeks to rescue and develop production practices based on ecological principles. ...

Land-sharing strategies, as variable retention silvicultural proposals, are useful to mitigate harmful effects of economic activities on forest biodiversity; benefits have been reported worldwide for several organisms. ...