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Ground-dwelling spider families and forest structure variables for monitoring ecologically sustainable logging operations
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-09)
Approximately 80% of neotropical forests are subject to unsustainable economic practices, such as logging. Spiders are a megadiverse taxonomic group with a particularly great diversity in forest ecosystems and could help ...
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016-10-14)
The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR is critical for the accurate valuation and ...
Structural–functional approach to identify post-disturbance recovery indicators in forests from northwestern Patagonia: a tool to prevent state transitions
(Elsevier, 2015-05)
The disruption of the natural post-disturbance recovery process, either by changes in disturbance regime or by another disturbance, can trigger transitions to alternative degraded states. In a scenario of high disturbance ...
Rewilding the Atlantic Forest: Restoring the fauna and ecological interactions of a protected area
(Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao, 2017-10)
The loss or reduction of animal populations and consequent extinction of ecological interactions in Neotropical forests demand urgent conservation initiatives to reverse these trends. One of the rainforests with the highest ...
Ten years of contested enforcement of the Forest Law in Salta, Argentina. The role of land-change science and political ecology
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019-07)
In this study, we present a critical account of the enforcement of the Forest Law in the Province of Salta, Argentina. We discuss whether the objectives of this law were accomplished and we analyze the role that some ...
Focusing conservation efforts on ecosystem service supply may increase vulnerability of socio-ecological systems
(Public Library of Science, 2016-05)
Growing concern about the loss of ecosystem services (ES) promotes their spatial representation as a key tool for the internalization of the ES framework into land use policies. Paradoxically, mapping approaches meant to ...
Potential biodiversity map of understory plants for Nothofagus forests in Southern Patagonia: Analyses of landscape, ecological niche and conservation values
(Elsevier, 2019-09)
The role of understory plants in native forests is critical for ecosystem function,wildlife protection and ecosystem productivity. The interest to estimate biodiversity increased during the last decades at landscape level. ...
Functional traits and growth rate response to stand variables: differences between saplings and seedlings of native trees established in loblolly pine plantations in the Atlantic Forest
(Springer, 2022-05-03)
The establishment of native trees in exotic forest plantations can improve economic and ecological outcomes, and functional traits can help understanding differential responses of growth rates to stand variables. It is ...
Ecological characterization of a tick community across a landscape gradient exhibiting differential anthropogenic disturbance in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in Argentina
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-09)
An ecological analysis of a tick (Ixodida: Ixodidae) community across a landscape gradient presenting differential anthropogenic disturbance in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in Argentina was performed. Ticks were collected ...
Distribution and diversity of leaf-cutting ants in Northeastern Argentina: species most associated with forest plantations
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019-07)
Leaf-cutting ants (LCA) are considered one of the main herbivores and one of the most destructive pest insects of the Neotropics. Northeastern Argentina harbors the greatest species richness of these ants and in turn ...