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Using Ecological Modelling to Assess the Long-Term Survival of the West-Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) in the Panama Canal
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)
There is evidence of a thriving population of West-Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in the Panama Canal, although it is not clear if they are descendants of a small group of introduced manatees or if manatees have entered ...
Un llamado a la activación real de la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Forestales
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)
Aunque en lo formal existe la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Forestales (SOCIFOR), creada por un grupo de instituciones ligadas al sector forestal, lamentablemente su inactividad ha debilitado su progreso. En el presente ...
A cross-scale assessment of productivity-diversity relationships
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)
Aim Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity vary across the globe, and considerable effort has been made to describe their relationships. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research has traditionally focused on how ...
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space: An international exploratory study
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)
Urban green space (UGS) is an essential element in the urban environment, providing multiple ecosystem services as well as beneficial effects on physical and mental health. In a time of societal crisis these effects may ...
Evaluating forest resilience to global threats using functional response traits and network properties
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020-07)
Ecosystem functions provided by forests are threatened by direct and indirect effects of global change drivers such as climate warming land-use change, biological invasions, and shifting natural disturbance regimes. To ...
Land-Cover Classification Using MaxEnt: Can We Trust in Model Quality Metrics for Estimating Classification Accuracy?
(MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-03)
MaxEnt is a popular maximum entropy-based algorithm originally developed for modelling species distribution, but increasingly used for land-cover classification. In this article, we used MaxEnt as a single-class land-cover ...
Estructura y regeneración de bosques de Prumnopitys andina en los Andes del sur de Chile
(Universidad de Concepcion, 2020-06)
Prumnopitys andina (lleuque) es una especie de conífera con una distribución restringida en Chile y Argentina. A pesar de su importancia ecológica, los conocimientos sobre la estructura y dinámica de los bosques donde crece ...
Integrating conflict, lobbying, and compliance to predict the sustainability of natural resource use
(The Resilience Alliance, 2020-06)
Predictive models are sorely needed to guide the management of harvested natural resources worldwide, yet existing frameworks fail to integrate the dynamic and interacting governance processes driving unsustainable use. ...
Height growth-rate at a given height: A mathematical perspective for forest productivity
(Elsevier, 2020-09)
Understanding the height growth of trees is a fundamental component for scientific knowledge and management of forest ecosystems. The height of dominant trees at a reference-age, commonly known as the site-index, is the ...
Short-term effects of variable-density thinning on regeneration in hardwood-dominated temperate rainforests
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020-05)
Second-growth temperate forests usually have simpler composition and structure than comparable old-growth stands. We evaluated the application of variable density thinning (VDT) as a way to increase old-growth attributes, ...