• Are Patagonia grasslands being overgrazed? A response to Marino et al. (2020) 

      Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Paredes, Paula Natalia; Ferrante, Daniela; Cepeda, Carla Tamara; Rabinovich, Jorge Eduardo (Wiley, 2020-09)
      Based upon primary productivity estimates, Oliva et al. (2019) concluded that, at the end of last century and after long periods of overgrazing, Patagonia's domestic stocks adjusted to regional‐scale herbivore carrying ...
    • Cambio Climático en Patagonia Sur: Escenarios futuros en el manejo de los recursos naturales 

      Kreps, Gastón; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José; Peri, Pablo Luis (Ediciones INTA, 2012)
      La biodiversidad asociada a los ecosistemas de Patagonia Sur (Santa Cruz y Tierra del Fuego) es consecuencia de una larga evolución de las especies y de la geografía misma, sin olvidar que la misma está en equilibrio con ...
    • Carbon Storage in Cold Temperate Ecosystems in Southern Patagonia, Argentina. 

      Peri, Pablo Luis (inTech, 2011-08)
      Recently there has been an increasing interest of research related to improve the understanding of carbon (C) sequestration mainly under Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...
    • 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 ...
    • Differential responses of soil microorganisms to precipitation changes in austral semiarid grasslands 

      Toledo, Santiago; Gargaglione, Veronica Beatriz; Yahdjian, Laura; Peri, Pablo Luis (Elsevier, 2023-06)
      Global climate models predict that precipitation regimes will change, generating great impacts on various ecosystem processes and functions. Therefore, it is important to know how drought and precipitation increases would ...
    • Dominant native and non‐native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability 

      Broadbent, Arthur A.D.; Firn, Jennifer L.; McGree, James M.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Buckley, Yvonne M.; Harpole, William Stanley; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; MacDougall, Andrew S., Andrew S.; Orwin, Kate H.; Ostle, Nicholas J.; Seabloom, Eric William; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Biederman, Lori; Caldeira, Maria C.; Eisenhauer, Nico; Hagenah, Nicole; Hautier, Yann; Moore, Joslin L.; Nogueira, Carla; Peri, Pablo Luis; Risch, Anita C.; Roscher, Christiane; Schütz, Martin; Stevens, Carly J. (Wiley, 2020-03-12)
      Nutrient enrichment is associated with plant invasions and biodiversity loss. Functional trait advantages may predict the ascendancy of invasive plants following nutrient enrichment but this is rarely tested. Here, we ...
    • Ecosystem Services in Patagonia: A Multi-Criteria Approach for an Integrated Assessment 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José; Nahuelhual, Laura (Springer Nature, 2021-04-27)
      This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting ...
    • Effect of defoliation frequency on Rytidosperma virescens plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization 

      Toledo, Santiago; Fontenla, Sonia Beatriz; Peri, Pablo Luis (Elsevier, 2022-06-09)
      Rangelands provide different ecosystem services to satisfy human needs. Although grazing management in southern Patagonia is mostly characterized by extensive continuous grazing, rotational grazing management may improve ...
    • Environmental Conditions and Grazing Exerted Effects on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal in Plants at Southern Patagonia Rangelands 

      Toledo, Santiago; Peri, Pablo Luis; Fontenla, Sonia Beatriz (Elsevier, 2022-03)
      Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play a major role in maintaining ecosystem functions. AM fungi are found in most ecosystems including rangelands currently under increasing pressures from human activities. Southern Patagonia ...
    • Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass 

      Daleo, Pedro; Alberti, Juan; Chaneton, Enrique J.; Iribarne, Oscar; Tognetti, Pedro M.; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Bruschetti, Martín; MacDougall, Andrew S.; Pascual, Jesús; Peri, Pablo Luis; Hautier, Yann (Springer Nature, 2023-03-31)
      Plant productivity varies due to environmental heterogeneity, and theory suggests that plant diversity can reduce this variation. While there is strong evidence of diversity effects on temporal variability of productivity, ...
    • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally 

      Smith, Melinda D.; Wilkins, Kate D.; Holdrege, Martin C.; Wilfahrt, Peter A.; Collins, Scott L.; Knapp, Alan K.; Sala, Osvaldo E.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Phillips, Richard P.; Yahdjian, Laura; Peri, Pablo Luis; Zuo, Xiaoan (National Academy of Sciences (Estados Unidos), 2024-01-08)
      Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term (~1 y) drought events—the most common duration of drought—globally. Yet the impact of this intensification of drought on ecosystem functioning remains ...
    • Foliar N⁄ P ratio and nutrient limitation to vegetation growth on Keerqin sandy grassland of North-east China. 

      Li, L.-J.; Zeng, D.-H.; Yu, Z.-Y.; Fan, Z.-P.; Mao, R.; Peri, Pablo Luis (Wiley, 2011-02-01)
      To examine whether the critical leaf N ⁄ P ratios (of 14, 16) are valid to test nutrient limitation in the context of semi-arid sandy grasslands, an experiment was conducted on a Keerqin sandy grassland in North-east China ...
    • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales 

      Hautier, Yann; Zhang, Pengfei; Loreau, Michel; Wilcox, Kevin R.; Seabloom, Eric William; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Byrnes, Jarrett E.K.; Koerner, Sally E.; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; Lefcheck, Jonathan S.; Hector, Andy; Adler, Peter B.; Alberti, Juan; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Brudvig, Lars A.; Bugalho, Miguel N.; Cadotte, Marc.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Carroll, Oliver; Crawley, Mick; Collins, Scott L.; Daleo, Pedro; Dee, Laura E.; Eisenhauer, Nico; Eskelinen, Anu; Fay, Philip A.; Gilbert, Benjamin; Hansar, Amandine; Isbell, Forest; Knops, Johannes M.H.; MacDougall, Andrew S.; McCulley, Rebecca L.; Moore, Joslin L.; Morgan, John W.; Mori, Akira S.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Pos, Edwin; Power, Sally A.; Price, Jodi N.; Reich, Peter B.; Risch, Anita C.; Roscher, Christiane; Sankaran, Mahesh; Schütz, Martin; Smith, Melinda D.; Stevens, Carly J.; Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano; Virtanen, Risto; Wardle, Glenda M.; Wilfahrt, Peter A.; Wang, Shaopeng (Springer Nature, 2020-10-23)
      Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale dependent remains to be elucidated. Here, ...
    • Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks 

      Eskelinen, Anu; Jessen, Maria Theresa; Bahamonde, Hector Alejandro; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Harpole, William Stanley; Jia, Meiyu; Lannes, Luciola S.; Nogueira, Carla; Venterink, Harry Olde; Peri, Pablo Luis; Porath-Krause, Anita J.; Seabloom, Eric William; Schroeder, Katie; Tognetti, Pedro M.; Yasui, Simone-Louise E.; Virtanen, Risto; Sullivan, Lauren L. (Springer Nature, 2023-07-04)
      Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment and shifts in herbivory can lead to dramatic changes in the composition and diversity of aboveground plant communities. In turn, this can alter seed banks in the soil, which are cryptic ...
    • Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs 

      Firn, Jennifer L.; McGree, James M.; Harvey, Eric; Flores-Moreno, Habacuc; Schütz, Martin; Buckley, Yvonne M.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric William; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; MacDougall, Andrew S.; Prober, Suzanne M.; Stevens, Carly J.; Sullivan, Lauren L.; Porter, Erica; Ladouceur, Emma; Allen, Charlotte; Moromizato, Karine H.; Morgan, John W.; Harpole, William Stanley; Hautier, Yann; Eisenhauer, Nico; Wright, Justin P.; Adler, Peter B.; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Biederman, Lori; Broadbent, Arthur A.D.; Brown, Cynthia S.; Bugalho, Miguel N.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Cleland, Elsa E.; Ebeling, Anne; Fay, Philip A.; Hagenah, Nicole; Kleinhesselink, Andrew R.; Mitchell, Rachel; Moore, Joslin L.; Nogueira, Carla; Peri, Pablo Luis; Roscher, Christiane; Smith, Melinda D.; Wragg, Peter D.; Risch, Anita C. (Nature Research, 2019)
      Leaf traits are frequently measured in ecology to provide a ‘common currency’ for predicting how anthropogenic pressures impact ecosystem function. Here, we test whether leaf traits consistently respond to experimental ...
    • Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment 

      Ladouceur, Emma; Blowes, Shane A.; Chase, Jonathan M.; Clark, Adam T.; Garbowski, Magda; Alberti, Juan; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Bharath, Siddharth; Peri, Pablo Luis; Harpole, Stanley (Wiley, 2022-11-24)
      Global change drivers, such as anthropogenic nutrient inputs, are increasing globally. Nutrient deposition simultaneously alters plant biodiversity, species composition and ecosystem processes like aboveground biomass ...
    • Manual para la instalación y lectura de monitores MARAS. Monitoreo Ambiental para Regiones Áridas y Semiáridas 

      Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Gaitan, Juan Jose; Bran, Donaldo Eduardo; Nakamatsu, Viviana Beatriz; Salomone, Jorge Manuel; Buono, Gustavo Gabriel; Escobar, Juan Maria; Frank, Federico Carlos; Ferrante, Daniela; Humano, Gervasio; Ciari, Georgina; Suarez, Diego; Opazo, Walter Javier; Adema, Edgardo Osvaldo (EEA Santa Cruz, INTA, 2010)
      Los pastizales naturales de la Patagonia son ecosistemas únicos en su tipo y constituyen la base de la ganadería ovina tradicional. Los pastizales proveen de importantes servicios ambientales, ya que son ricos en diversidad ...
    • Microbial processing of plant remains is co‐limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands 

      Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric William; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Risch, Anita C.; Collins, Scott L.; Alberti, Juan; Bahamonde, Héctor Alejandro; Brown, Cynthia S.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Daleo, Pedro; Dickman, Chris R.; Ebeling, Anne; Eisenhauer, Nico; Esch, Ellen H.; Eskelinen, Anu; Fernández, Victoria; Güsewell, Sabine; Gutierrez-Larruga, Blanca; Hofmockel, Kirsten; Laungani, Ramesh; Lind, Eric M.; López, Andrea; McCulley, Rebecca L.; Moore, Joslin L.; Peri, Pablo Luis; Power, Sally A.; Price, Jodi N.; Prober, Suzanne M.; Roscher, Christiane; Sarneel, Judith M.; Schütz, Martin; Siebert, Julia; Standish, Rachel J.; Velasco Ayuso, Sergio; Virtanen, Risto; Wardle, Glenda M.; Wiehl, Georg; Yahdjian, Laura; Zamin, Tara (Wiley, 2020-06)
      Microbial processing of aggregate‐unprotected organic matter inputs is key for soil fertility, long‐term ecosystem carbon and nutrient sequestration and sustainable agriculture. We investigated the effects of adding multiple ...
    • Mineral fertilization impacts microbial activity and endophytic fungi but not microbial biomass in semiarid grasslands 

      Toledo, Santiago; Gargaglione, Veronica Beatriz; Peri, Pablo Luis (Elsevier, 2024-01)
      Applications of mineral fertilizer to grasslands have become more frequent in recent decades to increase forage production. However, the impacts of mineral fertilizer on the soil microbiome is poorly understood in cold ...
    • Monitores MARAS: una metodología eficiente y precisa para evaluar el efecto a largo plazo del pastoreo sobre las praderas y pastizales naturales 

      Dominguez, Erwin; Oliva, Gabriel Esteban; Báez, John; Suarez Navarro, Angel Eduardo (Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Chile, 2019-05)
      El objetivo de este informativo es dar a conocer esta herramienta implementada por la EEA INTA Santa Cruz y por INIA Kampenaike, usada para evaluar el efecto a largo plazo de cualquier tipo de pastoreo (por ejemplo: ...