Estimations of the carbon stored in the above-ground biomass are important from traditional, ecological and forestry to contemporary climate and land-use change perspectives. Carbon sequestration and storage is reduced by ...

The native woody vegetation from the Espinal phytogeographic province in central Argentina, found in subtropical-warm temperate climates, represents part of the southernmost seasonally dry forest in South America. Although ...

One of the most proposed climate change mitigation strategies is carbon sequestration by vegetation. This depends on the rate of carbon uptake and transformation in biomass, the rate of release through respiration, and the ...

The replacement of native forest by cattle pastures reduces functional diversity; however, little is known about whether the changes depend on regional variation. Dung beetles are one of the most diverse and functionally ...

Beginnings of genetic studies of forest tree species native to Argentina. Main forest ecoregions of Argentina: Alto Paraná Rainforest, Yungas Rainforest, Chaco Subtropical Dry Forest, Subantarctic Temperate Forest, Espinal ...

South American subtropical dry forests are highly threatened by fragmentation. Despite considerable research efforts aimed at predicting ecosystem alterations due to this driver of global change, we still need to deal with ...

Forest fragmentation is a landscape-level process that consists of two interdependent components: forestloss and spatial pattern changes to which species respond differently. Efficient programs to conservenative biodiversity ...

At a regional scale, habitat heterogeneity can play a very important role in allowing the coexistence of species through their specialization in the use of patches differing in environmental conditions. Here, we explore ...