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Diego B. Ponce, Pablo J. Donoso and Christian Salas-Eljatib
The landscape in the lowlands of south-central Chile is dominated by agricultural lands and forestry plantations of exotic species. Natural forests are restricted to successional forests, while old-growth forests are nearly absent. The lack of old-growth...
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Elias Andersson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Anna Lawrence
Adaptation to climate change has often been discussed from the perspectives of social vulnerability and community vulnerability, recognising that characteristics at local level will influence the particular adaptations undertaken. However, the extent to ...
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Pablo Saavedra Briones, Alejandra Sepúlveda-Varas
Pág. 396 - 407
Historical studies of land use changes help us to understand the current configuration of the landscape and identify the environmental and social impacts that are associated with these transformations. Several authors describe the transitions as a proces...
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Luis Morales-Salinas, Edmundo Acevedo, Giorgio Castellaro, Luis Román-Osorio, Jael Morales-Inostroza, Máximo F. Alonso
Pág. 227 - 242
In the past 20 years, different areas of research concerning native and exotic species, herbaceous crops and forest plantations have been oriented toward satisfying domestic, industrial and transportation energy requirements. Because bioenergy species co...
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Moises Pescador,Salvador Peris
Pág. 403 - 410
Aim of the study: The objective is to assess the influences of the tree stand age and other forestry management practices on species richness, composition, and distribution of the Patagonian pine plantation bird assemblages. Area of Study: The work was c...
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E. Ozdemir,H. V. Oral,S. Akburak,E. Makineci,E. Yilmaz
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Aim of study : To determine if plantations consisting of different geographic origins of the Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton.) could have altered C and N stocks in the forest floor and surface soils.Area of study : Forest floor and mineral soil C and...
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Héctor Mancilla, Karla Quiroz, Ariel Arencibia, Basilio Carrasco, Rolando García-Gonzales
Pág. 609 - 615
. Luma chequen, a small tree or large shrub belonging to the Myrtaceae family, is endemic to South America and has medicinal, nutritional and ornamental potential. However, its native habitat is deteriorating gradually, and it is suffering from the effec...
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Jose Ramon Arevalo,J D Delgado,J M Fernandez-Palacios
Pág. 255 - 265
Exotic tree monocultures adversely affect native ecosystems through competition and alteration of nutrient availability and dynamics. However, there is evidence of some tree plantations facilitating a more rapid recovery of the native plant communities b...
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Mariana Weigandt,Javier Gyenge,María Elena Fernández,Santiago Varela,Tomás Schlichter
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Meadows are important reserves of water, with a key role in the maintenance of the biodiversity and productivity of ecosystems. In Patagonia, Argentina, afforestation with fast-growing exotic conifers has slowly but continuously increased over recent dec...
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Joana Farias dos Santos, Cristiane Roppa, Schweyka Stanley Holanda de Oliveira, Ricardo Valcarcel
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The study was taken in a reclamation area where soil was removed up to 13 meters deep in 1979, near Itaguaí county, Brazil (23o 55? 07?? S, 43o 49? 73?? O). In 2007 the composition and horizontal structure of the shrubby-arboreal strata was evaluated ...
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