• Cartografía de un nuevo Modelo de Estados y Transiciones de la Estepa Magallánica Seca en la Patagonia argentina 

      Schenkel, Cintia Anahi; Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Paredes, Paula Natalia; Humano, Gervasio; Ferrante, Daniela (Asociación Argentina de Ecología, 2021-08)
      Analizamos 103 censos de vegetación de la Estepa Magallánica Seca, un área de 12000 km2 de estepas graminosas semiáridas en el SE de la Patagonia. Los objetivos del presente trabajo fueron ampliar el relevamiento de ...
    • Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes. 

      Cuesta, F.; Carilla, Julieta; Llambí, L.D.; Muriel, P.; Lencinas, María Vanessa; Meneses, R.I.; Feeley, K.J.; Pauli, H.; Aguirre, N.; Beck, S.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Tovar, C. (Wiley, 2023-09)
      Aim: Climate change is transforming mountain summit plant communities worldwide, but we know little about such changes in the High Andes. Understanding large-scale patterns of vegetation changes across the Andes, and the ...
    • Compositional variation in grassland plant communities 

      Bakker, Jonathan D.; Price, Jodi N.; Henning, Jeremiah A.; Batzer, Evan E.; Ohlert, Timothy J.; Wainwright, Claire E.; Adler, Peter B.; Alberti, Juan.; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Biederman, Lori A.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Wardle, Glenda M. (Ecological Society of America, 2023-06-08)
      Human activities are altering ecological communities around the globe. Understanding the implications of these changes requires that we consider the composition of those communities. However, composition can be summarized ...
    • Condiciones de suelo y vegetación en tres bosques quemados de Nothofagus pumilio en Argentina y experiencias para su restauración activa 

      Urretavizcaya, María F.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Monelos, Lucas H.; Arriola, Hernán; Oyharçabal, María Florencia; Contardi, Liliana; Muñoz, Miriam; Sepúlveda, Eduardo; Defossé, Guillermo E. (2018-08)
      El fuego es un disturbio importante en bosques de lenga de Chubut y Santa Cruz, en la Patagonia argentina. Según del tipo de bosque y la severidad del fuego, el sistema resultante puede diferir en gran medida respecto del ...
    • The effects of land management (grazing intensity) vs. the effects of topography, soil properties, vegetation type, and climate on soil carbon concentration in Southern Patagonia 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Ladd, Brenton; Lasagno, Romina Gisele; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José (Elsevier, 2016-11)
      Grazing is an economically important activity in Southern Patagonia’s steppe and woodland ecosystems. In the past, emphasis has been on maximizing the provisioning capacity of these ecosystems with little concern for the ...
    • Evaluación de indicadores de degradación y biomasa radical en mallines de una cuenca hídrica del sur de Santa Cruz 

      Utrilla, Victor Ricardo; Andrade, Miguel Alberto; Billoni, Sabrina; Rogel, Bibiana; Peri, Pablo Luis (Asociación Argentina de Ecología, 2020)
      Se planteó un estudio con el objetivo de analizar la asociación entre indicadores de deterioro del suelo y la vegetación, evaluar los cambios de esas variables entre sectores y condiciones de degradación, y monitorear ...
    • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database 

      Poyatos, Rafael; Granda, Víctor; Flo, Víctor; Adams, Mark A.; Adorján, Balázs; Aguadé, David; Aidar, Marcos P. M.; Allen, Scott; Alvarado-Barrientos, M. Susana; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Martínez-Vilalta, Jordi (Copernicus Publications, 2021-06-14)
      Plant transpiration links physiological responses of vegetation to water supply and demand with hydrological, energy, and carbon budgets at the land–atmosphere interface. However, despite being the main land evaporative ...
    • Holistic versus continuous grazing in Patagonia: A station-scale case study of plant and animal production 

      Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Ferrante, Daniela; Cepeda, Carla Tamara; Humano, Gervasio; Puig, Silvina (Elsevier, 2021-01)
      We compared animal and vegetation responses of a 13 600-ha area under holistic grazing management (HGM) with a similar area under continuous grazing (CGM) in a Patagonian station. Limitations were a dry 2012 −2016 experimental ...
    • Lamb and wool provisioning ecosystem services in Southern Patagonia 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Rosas, Yamina Micaela; Rivera, Emilio Hernan; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José (MDPI, 2021-07-30)
      In Southern Patagonia, grasslands are the principal food resource for sheep reared for meat and wool as the main provisioning ecosystem services (ES). The main objective of this study was to model lamb and wool production ...
    • Landscape heterogeneity influences on sheep habits under extensive grazing management in Southern Patagonia 

      Ormaechea, Sebastián Gabriel; Peri, Pablo Luis (2015)
      In Southern Patagonia, continuous grazing with fixed stocking rates in large paddocks prevails over grazing systems subjected to regular evaluations and rotational rests. Because of this, sheep extensive systems need ...
    • Modeling soil nitrogen content in South Patagonia across a climate gradient, vegetation type, and grazing 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Rosas, Yamina Micaela; Ladd, Brenton; Toledo, Santiago; Lasagno, Romina Gisele; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José (MDPI, 2019-05)
      Soil total nitrogen (N) stock in rangelands, shrublands, and forests support key ecological functions such as the capacity of the land to sustain plant and animal productivity and ecosystem services. The objective of this ...
    • Monitoring drylands: The MARAS system 

      Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Bran, Donaldo Eduardo; Gaitan, Juan Jose; Ferrante, Daniela; Massara Paletto, Virginia; Garcia Martinez, Guillermo Carlos; Adema, Edgardo Osvaldo; Enrique, Mario Luis; Dominguez, Erwin; Paredes, Paula Natalia (Elsevier, 2018-11-09)
      MARAS (Monitoring of Arid and Semiarid Regions) consists of 379 ground monitors in Patagonia, a 624.500 km2 semiarid area of southern Argentina and Chile. The objective of this paper was to describe the system and analyze ...
    • Neochelanops michaelseni (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) as potential bioindicator in managed and unmanaged Nothofagus forests of Tierra del Fuego 

      Lencinas, María Vanessa; Kreps, Gastón; Soler Esteban, Rosina Matilde; Peri, Pablo Luis; Porta, Andres; Ramirez, Martín; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José (BioOne, 2015-11-01)
      Bioindicators could act as early warning indicators of environmental changes, ecosystem stress or taxonomic diversity. Pseudoscorpions have rarely been used as bioindicators, due to lack of information about their ecology, ...
    • Ojos que no ven… ¿Qué podemos hacer para incluir más a la fracción subterránea en estudios de vegetación? 

      López Mársico, Luis; Pestoni, Sofía; Conti, Georgina; Pérez-Harguindeguy, Natalia; Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José; Pinto, Priscila; Sarquis, Agustín; Reyes, María Fernanda; Peri, Pablo Luis; Piñeiro, Gervasio (Asociación Argentina de Ecología, 2020-06)
      Conocer la estructura y el funcionamiento de la fracción subterránea de la vegetación es fundamental para comprender numerosos procesos que ocurren en distintos niveles de organización. Sin embargo, dicha fracción fue menos ...
    • Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes 

      Moles, Angela T.; Wallis, Ian R.; Foley, William J.; Warton, David I.; Stegen, James C.; Bisigato, Alejandro J.; Cella-Pizarro, Lucrecia; Clark, Connie J.; Cohen, Philippe S.; Cornwell, William K.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Prior, Lynda D. (Wiley, 2011-05-03)
      It has long been believed that plant species from the tropics have higher levels of traits associated with resistance to herbivores than do species from higher latitudes. A meta-analysis recently showed that the published ...
    • Relación entre índices de sequía usando datos meteorológicos y satelitales, en la estepa magallánica seca (Patagonia) 

      Paredes, Paula Natalia; Maglione, Dora; Sandoval, Marisa; Soto, Julio; Bonfili, Oscar; Humano, Gervasio (Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2022-04)
      Los efectos de la sequía impactan en el sector productivo de las distintas regiones, incidiendo en la vegetación, la disponibilidad de agua y las consecuencias que ello ocasiona, por lo que resulta de interés el estudio ...
    • The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia 

      Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Dos Santos, Eder; Osiris, Sofia; Umaña, Fernando; Massara Paletto, Virginia; Garcia Martinez, Guillermo Carlos; Caruso, Cecilia Alejandra; Cariac, German; Echevarria, Daniela Carola; Fantozzi, Anabella Giselle; Butti, Lucas Ramiro; Bran, Donaldo Eduardo; Gaitan, Juan Jose; Ferrante, Daniela; Paredes, Paula Natalia; Dominguez, Erwin; Maestre, Fernando Tomás (Nature Research, 2020)
      We present the MARAS (Environmental Monitoring of Arid and Semiarid Regions) dataset, which stores vegetation and soil data of 426 rangeland monitoring plots installed throughout Patagonia, a 624.500 km2 area of southern ...
    • TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access 

      Kattge, Jens; Bönisch, Gerhard; Díaz, Sandra; Lavorel, Sandra; Colin Prentice, Iain; Leadley, Paul; Wirth, Christian; Tautenhahn, Susanne; Werner, Gijsbert D.A.; Gargaglione, Veronica Beatriz; Peri, Pablo Luis (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019-12-31)
      Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem ...
    • Variation of grazing‐induced vegetation changes across a large‐scale productivity gradient 

      Lezama, Felipe; Baeza, Santiago; Altesor, Alice; Cesa, Ariela; Chaneton, Enrique José; Paruelo, José María (Wiley, 2014-01)
      Questions: Does the magnitude of grazing‐induced changes in species composition vary with habitat productivity? How does the sign and magnitude of grazing effects on species richness and beta‐diversity change with increasing ...
    • Vegetation type mapping in Southern Patagonia and its relationship with ecosystem services, soil carbon stock, and biodiversity 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Gaitan, Juan José; Diaz, Boris Gaston; Almonacid, Leandro; Morales, Cristian Gabriel; Ferrer, Francisco; Lasagno, Romina Gisele; Rodríguez‑Souilla, Julián; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José (MDPI, 2024-02-29)
      Vegetation Type (VT) mapping using Optical Earth observation data is essential for the management and conservation of natural resources, as well as for the evaluation of the supply of provisioning ecosystem services (ESs), ...