• A hard-to-keep promise: Vegetation use and aboveground carbon storage in silvopastures of the Dry Chaco 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; de Waroux, Yann le Polain; Jobbagy Gampel, Esteban Gabriel; Loto, Dante E.; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio (Elsevier, 2020-11-01)
      In dry woodland regions, silvopastures have emerged as a promising option to balance cattle production, carbon storage and biodiversity. However, one of the major challenges in these systems, particularly when implemented ...
    • Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people 

      Levers, Christian; Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo; Baumann, Matthias; De Marzo, Teresa; Fernandez, Pedro David; Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; de Waroux, Yann le Polain; Piquer Rodríguez, María; Semper Pascual, Asunción; Kuemmerle, Tobias (National Academy of Sciences, 2021-11-02)
      Agricultural expansion into subtropical and tropical forests causes major environmental damage, but its wider social impacts often remain hidden. Forest-dependent smallholders are particularly strongly impacted, as they ...
    • Beyond pastures, look at plastic: Using Sentinel-2 imagery to map silage bags to improve understanding of cattle intensity 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; Gärtner, Phillipp; Nasca, Jose Andres; Rojas, Tobias; Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio (Elsevier, 2023-01-10)
      Cattle ranching has increased globally in the last decades, and although pasture expansion is well documented across different regions, there is little understanding of the intensity at which cattle operate in these areas. ...
    • Grasslands and Open Savannas of the Dry Chaco 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; Baumann, Mathias; Baldi, Germán; Banegas, Natalia Romina; Bravo, Sandra; Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio; Lucherini, Mauro; Marinaro, Sofia; Nanni, Ana Sofía; Nasca, Jose Andres; Tessi, Torcuato; Grau, Hector Ricardo (Elsevier, 2020-06-26)
      The Dry Chaco is mostly known as a forested ecosystem. However it includes natural grasslands, savannas, scrublands, and wetlands. With one of the highest global deforestation rates in the last two decades and only 12% of ...
    • Understanding the distribution of cattle production systems in the South American Chaco 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Baumann, Matthias; Grau, Héctor Ricardo; Nasca, Jose Andres; Radrizzani Bonadeo, Alejandro; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio (Taylor and Francis, 2020-02-11)
      Impacts of cattle production vary among different production systems, but data on their distribution is scarce for most world regions. In this work, we combine datasets on cattle vaccination locations and land cover in a ...