• Editorial: Impacts of climate change on long term viability of tree species with recalcitrant seeds 

  Brock, JMR.; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Morales, Narkis S. (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2023-08-07)

  Sin resumen.

• Monitoreo permanente de bosques naturales en las áreas silvestres protegidas de Chile: una necesidad urgente 

  Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Universidad Mayor, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Chile]; Vargas-Gaete, Rodrigo; Soto, Daniel P.; Donoso, Pablo J. (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2023-04)

  La dinámica de los bosques se refiere al cambio en su estructura y composición en el tiempo, gobernado por su crecimiento, el cual es resultado de los procesos de incremento en tamaño, mortalidad de árboles y reclutamiento ...

• Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities 

  Fernández-Murillo, María del Pilar; Alfaro, Fernando Daniel; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Gutiérrez, Julio Roberto; Kelt, Douglas A.; Meserve, Peter L.; Troncoso, Alejandra J. (WILEY, 2023-09)

  Aim: Evaluate the temporal changes in species diversity, composition, and structure of ephemeral plant communities and the seed bank in response to long-term herbivore exclusion over 11 years in plots with and without ...

• Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness 

  Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Hordijk, I; Maynard, DS; Hart, SP; Mo, LD; ter Steege, H; Liang, JJ; de-Miguel, S; Nabuurs, GJ; Reich, PB ; Abegg, M; Yao, CYA; Alberti, G; Zambrano, AAM; Alvarado, BV; Esteban, AD; Alvarez-Loayza, P; Alves, LF; Ammer, C; Antón-Fernández, C; Araujo-Murakami, A; Arroyo, L; Avitabile, V; Aymard, GA; Baker, T; Balazy, R; Banki, O; Barroso, J; Bastian, ML; Bastin, JF; Birigazzi, L; Birnbaum, P; Bitariho, R; Boeckx, P; Bongers, F; Bouriaud, O; Brancalion, PHS; Brandl, S; Brienen, R; Broadbent, EN; Bruelheide, H; Bussotti, F; Gatti, RC; César, RG; Cesljar, G; Chazdon, R; Chen, HYH; Chisholm, C; Cienciala, E; Clark, CJ; Clark, DB; Colletta, G; Coomes, D; Valverde, FC; Corral-Rivas, JJ; Crim, P; Cumming, J; Dayanandan, S; de Gasper, AL; Decuyper, M; Derroire, G; DeVries, B; Djordjevic, I; Iêda, A; Dourdain, A; Laurier, EON; Enquist, B; Eyre, T; Fandohan, AB; Fayle, TM; Ferreira, LV; Feldpausch, TR; Finér, L; Fischer, M; Fletcher, C; Frizzera, L; Gamarra, JGP; Gianelle, D; Glick, HB; Harris, D; Hector, A; Hemp, A; Hengeveld, G; Hérault, B; Herbohn, J; Hillers, A; Coronado, ENH; Hui, C; Cho, H; Ibanez, T; Jung, IB; Imai, N; Jagodzinski, AM; Jaroszewicz, B; Johanssen, V; Joly, CA; Jucker, T; Karminov, V; Kartawinata, K; Kearsley, E; Kenfack, D; Kennard, D; Kepfer-Rojas, S; Keppel, G; Khan, ML; Killeen, T; Kim, HS; Kitayama, K; Köhl, M; Korjus, H; Kraxner, F; Laarmann, D; Lang, M; Lewis, S; Lu, HC; Lukina, N; Maitner, B; Malhi, Y; Marcon, E; Marimon, BS; Marimon, B Jr; Marshall, AR; Martin, E; Martynenko, O; Meave, JA; Melo-Cruz, O; Mendoza, C; Merow, C; Stanislaw, M; Mendoza, AM; Moreno, V; Mukul, SA; Mundhenk, P; Nava-Miranda, MG; Neill, D; Neldner, V; Nevenic, R; Ngugi, M; Niklaus, PA; Oleksyn, J; Ontikov, P; Ortiz-Malavasi, E; Pan, YD; Paquette, A; Parada-Gutierrez, A; Parfenova, E; Park, M; Parren, M; Parthasarathy, N; Peri, PL; Pfautsch, S; Phillips, OL; Picard, N; Piedade, MT; Piotto, D; Pitman, NCA; Polo, I; Poorter, L; Poulsen, AD; Poulsen, JR; Pretzsch, H; Arevalo, FR; Restrepo-Correa, Z; Rodeghiero, M; Rolim, S; Roopsind, A; Rovero, F; Rutishauser, E; Saikia, P; Schall, P; Schepaschenko, D; Scherer-Lorenzen, M; Schmid, B; Schöngart, J; Searle, EB; Seben, V; Serra-Diaz, JM; Sheil, D; Shvidenko, A; Silva-Espejo, J; Silveira, M; Singh, J; Sist, P; Slik, F; Sonké, B; Souza, AF; Sterenczak, K; Svenning, JC; Svoboda, M; Swanepoel, B; Targhetta, N; Tchebakova, N; Thomas, R; Tikhonova, E; Umunay, P; Usoltsev, V; Valencia, R; Valladares, F; van der Plas, F; Tran, DV; Van Nuland, ME; Martinez, RV; Verbeeck, H; Viana, H; Vibrans, AC; Vieira, S; von Gadow, K; Wang, HF; Watson, J; Werner, GDA; Wiser, SK; Wittmann, F; Wortel, V; Zagt, R; Zawila-Niedzwiecki, T; Zhang, CY; Zhao, XH; Zhou, M; Zhu, ZX; Zo-Bi, IC; Crowther, TW (WILEY, 2023-06)

  Biodiversity is an important component of natural ecosystems, with higher species richness often correlating with an increase in ecosystem productivity. Yet, this relationship varies substantially across environments, ...

• Author Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions 

  Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Universidad Mayor, Chile]; Camille S. Delavaux, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Niamh M. Robmann, Thomas Lauber, Johan van den Hoogen, Sara Kuebbing, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio Vilchez Alvarado, Esteban Alvarez-Dávila, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Antón-Fernández, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard, Timothy R. Baker, Radomir Bałazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely G. Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean-Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. César, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Hyunkook Cho, Emil Cienciala, Connie Clark, David Clark, Gabriel D. Colletta, David A. Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, José J. Corral-Rivas, Philip M. Crim, Jonathan R. Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, André L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Jiri Dolezal, Aurélie Dourdain, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Brian J. Enquist, Teresa J. Eyre, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leandro V. Ferreira, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David J. Harris, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Hérault, John L. Herbohn, Martin Herold, Annika Hillers, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Thomas T. Ibanez, Iêda Amaral, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodziński, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Ilbin Jung, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah K. Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy J. Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Köhl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon L. Lewis, Huicui Lu, Natalia V. Lukina, Brian S. Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew R. Marshall, Emanuel H. Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa S. Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor J. Neldner, Radovan V. Nevenic, Michael R. Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena I. Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa T. F. Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel D. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir G. Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Philippe Saner, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schöngart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimír Seben, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Alexandre F. Souza, Stanislaw Miscicki, Krzysztof J. Stereńczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Hans ter Steege, Raquel Thomas, Elena Tikhonova, Peter M. Umunay, Vladimir A. Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Tran Van Do, Michael E. van Nuland, Rodolfo M. Vasquez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James V. Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Hannsjoerg Woell, Verginia Wortel, Roderik Zagt, Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie C. Zo-Bi & Daniel S. Maynard (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2023-08)

  Sin resumen.

• Rasgos-CL: A functional trait database of Chilean woody plants 

  Alfaro, Elías [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Pérez-Tello, Valentina [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Acevedo, Manuel; Ovalle, Juan; Segovia, Ricardo; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo & Ecosistemas, Chile] (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2023-12)

  Motivation: Due to language and networking barriers, global initiatives to compile trait data often fail to integrate data from sources in non-English languages or scientists that largely speak and write in non-English ...

• BIOVERA-Tree: tree diversity, community composition, forest structure and functional traits along gradients of forest-use intensity and elevation in Veracruz, Mexico 

  González, María Leticia Monge; Weigelt, Patrick; Guerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo & Ecosistemas, Chile]; Castillo-Campos, Gonzalo; Kromer, Thorsten; Kreft, Holger (PENSOFT PUBLISHERS, 2021-09-09)

  Here, we describe BIOVERA-Tree, a database on tree diversity, community composition, forest structure and functional traits collected in 120 forest plots, distributed along an extensive elevational gradient in Veracruz ...

• A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems 

  Dobbs, Cynnamon [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Goddard, Mark A.; Davies, Zoe G.; Guenat, Solene; Ferguson, Mark J.; Fisher, Jessica C. ; Akanni, Adeniran; Ahjokoski, Teija; Anderson, Pippin M. L.; Angeoletto, Fabio; Antoniou, Constantinos; Bates, Adam J.; Barkwith, Andrew; Berland, Adam; Bouch, Christopher J.; Rega-Brodsky, Christine C.; Byrne, Loren B.; Cameron, David; Canavan, Rory; Chapman, Tim; Connop, Stuart; Crossland, Steve; Dade, Marie C.; Dawson, David A.; Downs, Colleen T.; Ellis, Erle C.; Escobedo, Francisco J.; Gobster, Paul; Gulsrud, Natalie Marie; Guneralp, Burak; Hahs, Amy K.; Hale, James D.; Hassall, Christopher; Hedblom, Marcus; Hochuli, Dieter F.; Inkinen, Tommi; Loja, Loan-Cristian; Kendal, Dave; Knowland, Tom; Kowarik, Ingo; Langdale, Simon J.; Lerman, Susannah B.; MacGregor-Fors, Ian; Manning, Peter; Massini, Peter; McLean, Stacey; Mkwambisi, David D.; Ossola, Alessandro; Luque, Gabriel Perez; Perez-Urrestarazu, Luis; Perini, Katia; Perry, Gad; Pett, Tristan J.; Plummer, Kate E.; Radji, Raoufou A.; Roll, Uri; Potts, Simon G.; Rumble, Heather; Sadler, Jon P.; de Saille, Stevienna; Sautter, Sebastian; Scott, Catherine E.; Shwartz, Assaf; Smith, Tracy; Snep, Robbert P. H.; Soulsbury, Carl D.; Stanley, Margaret C.; Van de Voorde, Tim; Venn, Stephen J.; Warren, Philip H.; Washbourne, Carla-Leanne ; Whitling, Mark; Williams, Nicholas S. G.; Yang, Jun; Yeshitela, Kumelachew; Yocom, Ken P.; Dallimer, Martin (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2021-01)

  The future challenges and potential opportunities of robotics and autonomous systems in urban ecosystems, and how they may impact biodiversity, are explored and prioritized via a global horizon scan of 170 experts. Technology ...

• Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation 

  Cusack, Jeremy J. [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Bradfer-Lawrence, Tom; Baynham-Herd, Zachary; Castello y Tickell, Sofia; Duporge, Isla; Hegre, Havard; Moreno Zarate, Lara; Naude, Vincent; Nijhawan, Sahil; Wilson, John; Zambrano Cortes, Darío Gerardo; Bunnefeld, Nils (WILEY, 2021-05)

  Conflicts between the interests of biodiversity conservation and other human activities pose a major threat to natural ecosystems and human well-being, yet few methods exist to quantify their intensity and model their ...

• Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests 

  Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Weigelt, Patrick; Wolkis, Dustin; Kreft, Holger (WILEY, 2021-05)

  Questions Islands harbour a disproportionate amount of global plant diversity, yet their unique native assemblages are particularly vulnerable to biological invasions. It is therefore critical to identify the macroecological ...

• The impact of forest science in Chile: history, contribution, and challenges 

  Fuentealba, Álvaro; Duran, Leonardo [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Escuela Ingn Forestal, Chile]; Morales, Narkis S. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile] (CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, 2021-06)

  In this article we describe Chile's transition from an agriculture productive model that originated in the 19th century into a more complex economic model that incorporates forest production, explaining the role of forest ...

• Urban wildlife in times of COVID-19: What can we infer from novel carnivore records in urban areas? 

  Silva-Rodríguez, Eduardo A.; Gálvez, Nicolás; Swan, George J.F.; Cusack, Jeremy J. [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas CEM]; Moreira-Arcede, Darío (Elsevier, 2021-04)

  The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought an unusual decrease in human activity associated with partial and total lockdowns. Simultaneously, a series of wildlife sightings—mainly in urban areas—have been brought to public ...

• Land-Cover Classification Using MaxEnt: Can We Trust in Model Quality Metrics for Estimating Classification Accuracy? 

  Morales, Narkis S. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile]; Fernández, Ignacio C. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Chile] (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 ...

• Evaluating forest resilience to global threats using functional response traits and network properties 

  Aquilue, Nuria; Filotas, Elise; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Fac Ciencias, Chile]; Fortin, Marie-Josee; Brotons, Lluis; Messier, Christian (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 ...

• Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires 

  Cardil, Adrian; de-Miguel, Sergio; Silva, Carlos A.; Reich, Peter B.; Calkin, David; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Zhou, M.; Pijanowski, Bryan C.; Hui, Cang; Crowther, Thomas W.; Herault, Bruno; Piotto, Daniel; Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitored Ecosistemas, Chile]; Broadbent, Eben North; Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica M.; Picard, Nicolás; Aragao, Luiz EOC; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Routh, Devin; van den Hoogen, Johan; Peri, Pablo L.; Liang, Jingjing (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2020-12)

  Sin resumen.

• Differential Early Performance of Two Underplanted Hardwood Tree Species Following Restoration Treatments in High-Graded Temperate Rainforests 

  Soto, Daniel P.; Donoso, Pablo J.; Vásquez-Grandón, Angélica; González-Chang, Mauricio; Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitored Ecosistemas, Chile] (MDPI AG, 2020-04)

  Rauli (Nothofagus alpina (Poepp. & Endl.)) and Ulmo (Eucryphia cordifolia Cav.) are mid-tolerant tree species in the Coihue-Rauli-Tepa (ca. 0.55 mill ha) and Evergreen (ca. 4.1 mill ha) forest types in south-central Chile, ...

• Short-term effects of variable-density thinning on regeneration in hardwood-dominated temperate rainforests 

  Donoso, Pablo J.; Puettmann, Klaus J.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Ponce, Diego B.; Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitored Ecosistemas, Chile]; Ojeda, Patricio F. (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, ...

• Height growth-rate at a given height: A mathematical perspective for forest productivity 

  Salas-Eljatib, Christian [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitored Ecosistemas, Chile] (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 ...

• Integrating conflict, lobbying, and compliance to predict the sustainability of natural resource use 

  Cusack, Jeremy J. [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas CEM]; Duthie, A. Bradley; Minderman, Jeroen; Jones, Isabel L.; Pozo, Rocio A.; Rakotonarivo, A. Sarobidy; Redpath, Steve; Bunnefeld, Nils (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. ...

• Life-history dimensions indicate non-random assembly processes in tropical island tree communities 

  Schrader, Julian; Craven, Dylan [Univ Mayor, Ctr Modelac & Monitoreo Ecosistemas, Fac Ciencias, Chile]; Sattler, Cornelia; Camara-Leret, Rodrigo; Moeljono, Soetjipto; Kreft, Holger (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2021-03)

  Community assembly processes on islands are often non-random. The mechanisms behind non-random assembly, however, are generally difficult to disentangle. Functional diversity in combination with a null model approach that ...

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