• Patagonian Desert 

      Gaitan, Juan Jose; Bran, Donaldo Eduardo; Oliva, Gabriel Esteban (Elsevier, 2019)
      The Argentinian Patagonia is a vast area (790,000-km2) of southern South America between 36° and 55°S. Almost 90% of the area is arid, semiarid or dry- subhumid (drylands) and covers important and heterogeneous ecological ...
    • Guía de evaluación a campo: Calidad estructural de suelos bajo siembra directa 

      Peralta, Guillermo Ezequiel; Bressan, Emiliano Miguel; Mortola, Natalia Andrea; Romaniuk, Romina Ingrid; Aciar, Martín; Agosti, María Belen; Mousegne, Fernando Jorge; Gil, Rodolfo Cesareo (AAPRESID, 2019)
      La siembra directa (SD) es el principal sistema de manejo de suelos de la Argentina, y en particular de la Región Pampeana. Actualmente, el área cultivada bajo siembra directa representa aproximadamente el 90% del área ...
    • Distribution and classification of soils 

      Rodriguez, Dario Martin; Schulz, Guillermo; Aleksa, Alicia Silvia; Tenti Vuegen, Leonardo Mauricio (Springer, 2019)
      The systematic survey of the soils in Argentina began in the 1960s, led by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA). The US Soil Taxonomy was adopted as the soil classification system from the beginning of ...
    • Soils of the Chaco Region 

      Moretti, Lucas Martin; Morras, Hector; Pereyra, Fernando X.; Schulz, Guillermo (Springer, 2019)
      The Argentinian Chaco region belongs to an extensive ecoregion called “Great Chaco”, characterized by ample plains of fluvial aggradation and linked to the formation of large alluvial fans. The climate is semi-arid to ...
    • Antecedentes y cultivo del género Paulownia “Kiri” en Argentina 

      Lupi, Ana Maria; Flores Palenzona, Mario Horacio; Falconier, Marcelo; Tato Vazquez, Cecilia L. (INTA-Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca, 2019)
      En esta contribución se describen algunos aspectos básicos que deben tenerse en cuenta para el cultivo de Paulownia, género conocido vulgarmente en nuestro país como kiri. Una mirada a la bibliografía consultada al hacer ...
    • Potential Use of a poultry manure digestate as a Biofertiliser: evaluation of soil properties and Lactuca sativa growth 

      Mortola, Natalia Andrea; Romaniuk, Romina Ingrid; Cosentino, Vanina Rosa Noemi; Carfagno, Patricia; Rizzo, Pedro Federico; Bres, Patricia Alina; Riera, Nicolas; Roba, Marcos Andrés; Butti, Mariano; Sainz, Daiana Soledad; Brutti, Lucrecia Noemi; Eiza, Maximiliano Joaquin (2019-02)
      Anaerobic digestion is a process that is widely used for the treatment of organic wastes. The digestate can be used as a soil amendment or crop fertiliser. The aims of our work were to evaluate 1) the physicochemical ...
    • From Kyoto to Paris: Measuring renewable energy policy regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States 

      Pischke, Erin; Solomon, Barry; Wellstead, Adam; Acevedo, Alberto; Eastmond, Amarella; De Oliveira, Fernando; Coelho, Suani; Lucon, Oswaldo (2019-04)
      There are numerous strategies to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or to mitigate global climate change. One of them is to promote polices for developing renewable energy sources. There has been a growth in such policies ...
    • Sudangrass, an alternative lignocellulosic feedstock for bioenergy in Argentina 

      Acevedo, Alberto; Simister, Rachael; McQueen-Mason, Simon J.; Gómez, Leonardo D. (Plos One, 2019-05)
      Sudangrass, Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf, is a vigorous forage crop that has also been used for biogas, paper, and electricity production. Due to the large biomass yields achieved by sudangrass and the large area of ...
    • Distribución de suelos afectados por sales en Argentina 

      Rodriguez, Dario Martin; Schulz, Guillermo; Tenti Vuegen, Leonardo Mauricio (2019-07-23)
      Los suelos afectados con sales se encuentran distribuidos por gran parte del territorio nacional. A partir del material cartográfico provisto por el Atlas de suelos de la República Argentina, se propone individualizar, ...
    • Soil stabilisation by water repellency under no-till management for soils with contrasting mineralogy and carbon quality 

      Behrends Kraemer, Filipe; Hallett, Paul D.; Morras, Hector; Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro; Cosentino, Diego Julian; Duval, Matías; Galantini, Juan (Elsevier, 2019-08-23)
      No-till soil management is common around the globe, but the impacts on soil structural quality varies depending on cropping practice and inherent soil properties. This study explored water repellency as a driver of soil ...
    • Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Topsoil Organic Carbon Concentration in Drylands Have Similar Effects at Regional and Global Scales 

      Gaitan, Juan Jose; Maestre, Fernando Tomás; Bran, Donaldo Eduardo; Buono, Gustavo Gabriel; Dougill, Andrew J.; Garcia Martinez, Guillermo Carlos; Ferrante, Daniela; Guuroh, Reginald Tang; Linstadter, Anja; Massara Paletto, Virginia; Thomas, Andrew David; Oliva, Gabriel Esteban (Springer, 2019-11)
      Drylands contain 25% of the world’s soil organic carbon (SOC), which is controlled by many factors, both abiotic and biotic. Thus, understanding how these factors control SOC concentration can help to design more sustainable ...
    • Red Argentina de Ciencia y tecnología Forestal - REDFOR.ar. Un medio de articular y fortalecer las capacidades científico - Técnicas para el desarrollo forestal 

      Carabelli, Francisco A.; Lupi, Ana Maria; Graciano, Corina; Villagra, Pablo Eugenio (Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, 2019-12)
      La REDFOR.ar es una iniciativa conjunta de las instituciones vinculadas a las Ciencias Forestales, que está conformada por docentes, investigadores e instituciones relacionados con la educación, la ciencia y la tecnología ...
    • Ecosystem Services and Economic Assessment of Land Uses in Urban and Periurban Areas 

      Civeira, Gabriela; Lado Liñares, Marcos; Vidal Vazquez, Eva; Paz González, Antonio (Springer, 2020-02-07)
      This work quantified ecosystem services (ES) and the geographic gross product (GGP) at municipal level in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (MRBA), Argentina. The ES offer and GGP were evaluated for each land use ...
    • Estudio de la aptitud de las tierras para uso agropecuario para la planificación de la urbanización en sectores rurales de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (RMBA) 

      Casas, Roberto Raul; Godagnone, Ruben Edgardo; De La Fuente, Juan Carlos (Universidad de Morón, 2020-03-04)
      La urbanización de tierras agrícolas se presenta en la actualidad como una problemática mundial, que instala al uso del suelo en el centro de la reflexión y debate sobre lo urbano. A fin de consensuar soluciones entre los ...
    • Determinantes hidrológicos y edáficos de la dinámica de algunos contaminantes en una microcuenca de Pampa Ondulada bajo siembra directa 

      Sainz, Daiana Soledad (Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2020-03-19)
      En la Región Pampeana se observan procesos de degradación física y de erosión hídrica aún en planteos de siembra directa. Para la evaluación de estos procesos se trabajó de manera conjunta a nivel de microcuenca, lote/parche ...
    • Archeology, stone tools and RIMAPS technique A quantitive characterization of use - wear traces 

      Pal, N.; Alvarez, M.R.; Briz, I.; Dominguez, A.; Favret, Eduardo Alfredo (Microscopy Society of America, 2020-04-28)
      Archaeology relies on material remains to attain a broad comprehensive understanding of humanevolution, creating undeniable challenges to the methodological field. Microscopy and image techniques have had a paramount role ...
    • Extrapolation of a structural equation model for digital soil mapping 

      Angelini, Marcos Esteban; Kempen, Bas; Hauvelink, Gerard B.M.; Temme, Arnaud J.A.M.; Ransom, Michel D. (Elsevier, 2020-05)
      In theory, two separate regions with the same soil-forming factors should develop similar soil conditions. This theoretical finding has been used in digital soil mapping (DSM) to extrapolate a model from one area to another, ...
    • Machine learning in space and time for modelling soil organic carbon change 

      Heuvelink, Gerard B.M.; Angelini, Marcos Esteban; Poggio, Laura; Bai, Zhanguo; Batjes, Niels H.; van den Bosch, Rik; Bossio, Deborah; Estella, Sergio; Lehmann, Johannes; Olmedo, Guillermo Federico; Sanderman, Jonathan (Wiley, 2020-05-20)
      Spatially resolved estimates of change in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are necessary for supporting national and international policies aimed at achieving land degradation neutrality and climate change mitigation. In ...
    • Sector agropecuario 

      Taboada, Miguel Angel; Busto, Mercedes; Costantini, Alejandro Oscar; Maggio, Andrea Graciela; Perin, Adriano; Sampaio Pimentel, Marcio; Alfaro, Marta Andrea; Pons Ganddini, Diego; Monterroso Rivas, Alejandro Ismael; Loboguerrero, Ana María (McGraw-Hill, 2020-06-01)
      En los países RIOCC se observa una marcada heterogeneidad en lo que respecta al sector agropecuario y al tipo de medidas de adaptación posibles. Mientras que en algunos países la población desarrolla una agricultura de ...
    • Soil shrinkage curves and micromorphology in contrasting managements. 

      Fernández, Patricia L.; Alvarez, Carina Rosa; Behrends Kraemer, Filipe; Morras, Hector; Scheiner, Javier; Boivin, Pascal; Taboada, Miguel Angel (Asociación Argentina de la Ciencia del Suelo, 2020-06-01)
      Compaction processes are generally described using methods that do not distinguish volume changes of diffe rent types and pore sizes. The adjustment of shrinkage curves (ShC) using the XP model allows elucidation of the ...