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Hantavirus infection and biodiversity in the Americas
(Springer, 2019-12)
Species diversity has been proposed to decrease prevalence of disease in a wide variety of host'pathogen systems, in a phenomenon labeled the dilution effect. This phenomenon was first proposed and tested for vector-borne ...
Interactions between changing climate and biodiversity: Shaping humanity's future
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-03)
Scientists have known for more than a century aboutpotential human impacts on climate (1). In the last 30 y,estimates of these impacts have been confirmed andrefined through increasingly precise climate assess-ments (2). ...
How are Argentina and Chile facing shared biodiversity loss?
(Springer, 2018-12-24)
Biodiversity loss remains one of the most pressing issues for global governance. This situation can be seen in Argentina and Chile through the effects of biodiversity loss caused by the introduction and expansion of beavers ...
Avifaunal inventory of northern Entre Ríos, Argentina: noteworthy records and conservation prospects
(Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, 2018)
Biodiversity inventories remain fundamental tools for biodiversity conservation. Neotropical biota has poor faunal inventories. In Argentina, the avifauna of the province of Entre Ríos is still not well known. Here, we ...
Potential biodiversity map of lizard species in Southern Patagonia: Environmental characterization, desertification influence and analyses of protection areas
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-11)
The distribution of biodiversity at the landscape level is shaped by biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic factors. Biodiversity maps provide the basis for defining management and conservation strategies that can minimize human ...
Climate mediates the biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationship globally
(2018-08)
The insurance hypothesis, stating that biodiversity can increase ecosystem stability, has received wide research and political attention. Recent experiments suggest that climate change can impact how plant diversity ...
Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07)
The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health needs of billions of people. Yet ...
Effects of the herbicide glyphosate on non-target plant native species from Chaco forest (Argentina)
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2017-10)
Agriculture based on transgenic crops has expanded in Argentina into areas formerly occupied by Chaco forest. Even though glyphosate is the herbicide most widely used in the world, increasing evidence indicates severe ...