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DESCRIPCIÓN:

El futuro de la humanidad depende de la transición hacia la sostenibilidad, en escalas que van desde lo local a lo global. La línea sobre la gestión sostenible de recursos naturales y la política (GSRNP) está en el núcleo de esta investigación. Principios clave de la sostenibilidad son las interconexiones entre subsistemas humanos y ambientales. Por lo tanto, la línea de investigación GSRNP proporcionará un lugar interdisciplinario de alta calidad, que tiene como objetivo fundamental la comprensión de sistemas con referencia a los esfuerzos de resolución de problemas enfocados y dirigidos hacia la sostenibilidad de los recursos naturales y la política, junto con el medio humano (es decir, socio-ecológica). Al hacerlo, el GSRNP será un uso inspirado en la línea de investigación basada en el lugar para comprender y mejorar la relación dinámica entre los servicios de los ecosistemas y el bienestar humano en los sistemas socio-ecológicos chilenos seleccionados.

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OBJETIVOS:

La línea de investigación GSRNP esencialmente trabaja en cinco aspectos generales que son de importancia crucial para el avance de la ciencia y la práctica de la gestión de los recursos naturales y también para hacer frente a los obstáculos clave para la sustentabilidad en Chile. (1) Evaluación de impacto basada en la evidencia de las políticas existentes a través de múltiples servicios de los ecosistemas. (2) El análisis sistemático de las soluciones basadas en la ciencia novedosas para los problemas de gestión de recursos naturales. (3) Evaluación de la capacidad institucional de los instrumentos de la política de gestión de recursos naturales. (4) El diseño y puesta a prueba de las estrategias de manejo de recursos naturales innovadores basados ​​en esquemas de financiamiento novedosos (por ejemplo, la biodiversidad compensación). (5) La información y la transferencia de capacidades para el monitoreo y evaluación socio-ecológico, institucional y político.

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PROYECCIONES:

Anticipamos resultados que informarán sobre un nuevo diseño, el basado en el lugar, de perspectivas políticas y la transferencia de conocimientos a los actores locales, y organizaciones no gubernamentales, fundaciones y empresas privadas. Anticipamos resultados de esta línea de investigación que darán lugar a la puesta en marcha de un conjunto de esquemas de política que permitan beneficios socio-ecológicos verificables, lo que probablemente podrían resultar en ganancias sin precedentes para la sostenibilidad de Chile y alianzas novedosas intersectoriales.

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COLABORACIONES INTERNACIONALES:

Joshua Cinner, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

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EQUIPO:

Investigador Principal:

Stefan Gelcich

Investigadores asociados: 

Rodrigo Arriagada, Francisca Reyes y Sergio Navarrete

Postdoctorados: 

Rodrigo Estévez y María José Martínez

Estudiantes de postgrado

Joan Escobar, Giorgia Graells, Valentina Strappa, Valeska San Martin y Jaime Cursach

Profesionales y Técnicos: 

Nancy Sanhueza

Estudiantes de pregrado: 

Paloma Bravo

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PUBLICACIONES:

• Arriagada R, Villaseñor A, Rubiano E, Cotacachi D & Morrison J (2018) Analysing the impacts of PES programmes beyond economic rationale: Perceptions of ecosystem services provision. associated to the Mexican case. Ecosystem Services 29: 116-127. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.12.007. PDF
• Bennett NJ, Whitty TS, Finkbeiner E, Pittman J, Bassett H, Gelcich S & Allison EH (2018). Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework. Environmental Management 61: 597-614. 1007/s00267-017-0993-2. PDF
• Cinner JE, Adger WN, Allison EH, Barnes ML, Brown K, Cohen PJ, Gelcich S, Hicks CC, Hughes TP, Lau J, Marshall NA & Morrison TH (2018) Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities. Nature Climate Change 8: 117-123. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.03.013. PDF
• Escobar JB, Knight C & Navarrete SA (2018) Predation on competing mussel species: Patterns of prey consumption and its potential role in species coexistence. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 504: 38-46. Doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2018.03.008. PDF
• Fernández FJ, Ponce RD, Vásquez-Lavin F, Figueroa Y, Gelcich S & Dresdner J (2018) Exploring typologies of artisanal mussel seed producers in southern Chile. Ocean & Coastal Management 158: 24-31. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.03.013. PDF
• Gelcich S, Reyes-Mendy F, Arriagada R & Castillo B (2018) Assessing the implementation of marine ecosystem based management into national policies: Insights from agenda setting and policy responses. Marine Policy 92: 40-47. Doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.017. PDF
• Nahuelhual L, Benra F, Laterra P, Marin S, Arriagada R & Jullian C (2018) Patterns of ecosystem services supply across farm properties: Implications for ecosystem services-based policy incentives. Science of The Total Environment 634: 941-950. Doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.042. PDF
• Mandakovic D, Rojas C, Maldonado J, Latorre M, Travisany D, Delage E, Bihouée A, Jean G, Díaz FP, Fernández-Gómez B, Cabrera P, Gaete A, Latorre C, Gutiérrez RA, Maass A et. al. (2018) Structure and co-occurrence patterns in microbial communities under acute environmental stress reveal ecological factors fostering resilience. Scientific Reports Doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23931-0. PDF
• Tam J, Chan KMA, Satterfield T, Singh GG & Gelcich S (2018) Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries. Marine Policy 90: 1-5. Doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.025. PDF
• Thiault L, Marshall P, Gelcich S, Collin A, Chlous F & Claudet J (2018) Space and time matter in social-ecological vulnerability assessments. Marine Policy 88: 213-221. Doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.11.027. PDF
• Thiault L, Marshall P, Gelcich S, Collin A, Chlous F & Claudet J (2018) Mapping social-ecological vulnerability to inform local decision making. Conservation Biology 32: 447-456. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12989. PDF
• Sorice MG, Donlan CJ, Boyle KJ, Xu W, Gelcich S & Puebla I (2018) Scaling participation in payments for ecosystem services programs. PLOS ONE 13: e0192211. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192211. PDF
• Crona B, Gelcich S & Bodin 0 (2017) The Importance of Interplay Between Leadership and Social Capital in Shaping Outcomes of Rights-Based Fisheries Governance. World Development91:70-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.006. PDF
• de Juan S, Gelcich S & Fernandez M (2017) Integrating stakeholder perceptions and preferences on ecosystem services in the management of coastal areas. Ocean & Coastal Management. 136: 38-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.11.019. PDF
• Donlan CJ, Luque GM, Wilcox C, Gelcich S, Koch GW & Hungate BA (2017) Research on Seafood Fraud Deserves Better. Conservation Letters 10: 783-785. Doi: 10.1111/conl.12356. PDF
• Estévez RA, Alamos FH, Walshe T & Gelcich S (2017) Accounting for Uncertainty in Value Judgements when Applying Multi-Attribute Value Theory. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 23 (1): 87-97. Doi: 10.1007/s10666-017-9555-5. PDF
• Gelcich S, Cinner J^,Donlan CJ, Tapia-Lewin S^,  Godoy N & Castilla JC (2017) Fishers’ perceptions on the Chilean coastal TURF system after two decades: problems, benefits, and emerging needs. Bulletin of Marine Science 93(1): 53-67(15). https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1082. PDF
• Gelcich S, Vargas C, Carreras MJ, Castilla JC & Donlan CJ (2017) Achieving biodiversity benefits with offsets: Research gaps, challenges, and needs. Ambio 46:184–189. DOI 10.1007/s13280-016-0810-9. PDF
• Mizrahi D, Pereira SF, Navarrete SA & Flores AAV (2017) Allelopathic effects on the sun‑coral invasion: facilitation, inhibition and patterns of local biodiversity. Marine Biology164:139. DOI 10.1007/s00227-017-3164-3. PDF
• Nakandakari A, Caillaux M, Zavala J, Gelcich S & Ghersi F (2017) The importance of understanding self-governance efforts in coastal fisheries in Peru: insights from La Islilla and Ilo. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1):199–216. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1087. PDF
• Pérez-Matus A, Ospina-Alvarez A, Camus PA, Carrasco SA, Fernandez M, Gelcich S, Godoy N, Ojeda FP, Pardo LM, Rozbaczylo N, Subida MD, Thiel M, Wieters EA & Navarrete SA (2017) Temperate rocky subtidal reef community reveals human impacts across the entire food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series567:1-6. PDF
• Rivera A, Gelcich G, García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2017) Trends, drivers, and lessons from a long-term data series of the Asturian (northern Spain) gooseneck barnacle territorial use rights system. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1):35–51. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1080. PDF
• Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2017) Heterogeneous management and conservation perceptions within the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias (N. Spain). Marine Policy81: 229-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.020. PDF
• Rivera A, Unibazo J, León P, Vásquez-Lavín F, Ponce R, Mansur L & Gelcich S (2017) Stakeholder perceptions of enhancement opportunities in the Chilean small and medium scale mussel aquaculture industry. Aquaculture 479: 423-431. Doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.06.015. PDF
• Ruiz-Frau A, Gelcich S, Hendriks IE, Duarte CM & Marba N (2017) Current state of seagrass ecosystem services: Research and policy integration. OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT 149: 107-115. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.10.004. PDF
• Ruano-Chamorro C, Castilla JC & Gelcich S (2017) Human dimensions of marine hydrokinetic energies: Current knowledge and research gaps. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 82(3): 1979-1989. Doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.07.023. PDF
• Tapia-Lewin S, Vergara K, De La Barra C, Godoy N, Castilla JC & Gelcich S (2017) Distal impacts of aquarium trade: Exploring the emerging sandhopper (Orchestoidea tuberculata) artisanal shore gathering fishery in Chile. Ambio 46: 706-716. Doi: 10.1007/s13280-017-0906-x. PDF
• Thiault L, Collin A, Chlous F, Gelcich S & Claudet J (2017) Combining participatory and socioeconomic approaches to map fishing effort in small-scale fisheries. Plos One12(5): e0176862. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176862. PDF
• Van Holt T, Crona B, Johnson JC & Gelcich S (2017) The consequences of landscape change on fishing strategies. Science of The Total Environment579: 930-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.052. PDF
• Arriagada R, Echeverría C & Moya D (2016) Creating protected areas on public lands: is there room for additional conservation? PLoS One11(2): 1-16. PDF
• Biggs D, Amar F, Valdebenito A & Gelcich S (2016) Potential Synergies between Nature-Based Tourism and Sustainable Use of Marine Resources: Insights from Dive Tourism in Territorial User Rights for Fisheries in Chile. PLoS ONE11(3): e0148862. PDF
• Bonicelli J, Tyburczy J, Tapia FJ, Finke GR, Parragué M, Dudas S, Menge BA & Navarrete SA (2016) Diel vertical migration and cross-shore distribution of barnacle and bivalve larvae in the central Chile inner-shelf. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 485: 35-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.08.013. PDF
• Castilla JC, Espinosa J,Yamashiro C, Melo O & Gelcich S (2016) telecoupling between catch, farming, and international trade for the gastropods Concholepas concholepas(loco) and Haliotis spp. (abalone). Journal of Shellfish Research 35(2): 1–8. PDF
• Crona BI, Basurto X, Squires D, Gelcich S, Daw TM, Khan A, Havice E, Chomo V, Troell M, Buchary EA & Allison EH (2016) Towards a typology of interactions between small-scale fisheries and global seafood trade, Marine Policy65:1-10. PDF
• Cuenca P, Arriagada R & Echeverría C (2016) How much deforestation do protected areas avoid in tropical Andean landscapes? Environmental Science & Policy. 56: 56-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.10.014. PDF
• Flores G, Aguilera JC, Almar R, Cienfuegos R & Navarrete SA (2016) A new remote sensing method for high-resolution quantification of submersion regimes in wave exposed shores. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14: 736–749. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10133. PDF
• Gelcich S & O’Keeffe J (2016) Emerging frontiers in perceptions research for aquatic conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems26: 986–994. doi: 1002/aqc.2714. PDF
• Godoy N, Gelcich S, Castilla JC, Lima M & Smith A (2016) Artisanal spearfishery in temperate nearshore ecosystems of Chile: Exploring the catch composition, revenue, and management needs. Marine and Coastal Fisheries8(1): 436-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2016.1185062. PDF
• Kéfi S, Miele V, Wieters EA, Navarrete SA & Berlow EL (2016) How structured is the entangled bank? The surprisingly simple organization of multiplex ecological networks leads to increased persistence and resilience. PLoS Biol14(8): e1002527. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002527. PDF
• Oyanedel R, Marín A, Castilla JC & Gelcich S (2016) Establishing marine protected areas through bottom-up processes: insights from two contrasting initiatives in Chile.  Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems26: 184–195. PDF
• Rahimi S, Gaines SD, Gelcich S, Deacon R & Ovando D (2016) Factors driving the implementation of fishery reforms. Marine Policy. 71: 222-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.06.005. PDF
• Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Florez L & Acuña JL (2016) Incorporating landscape metrics into invertebrate fisheries management: case study of the gooseneck barnacle in Asturias (N. Spain). ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw029. PDF
• Vásquez F, Gelcich S, Lerdón XP & Montealegre F (2016) The role of information in changing tourists behavioral preferences at the Humboldt penguin reserve in northern Chile. Ocean & Coastal Management, 125: 63-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.03.003. PDF
• Arriagada R, Sills E, Ferraro P & Pattanayak S (2015) Do Payments pay off? Evidence from participation in Costa Rica’s PES program. PLoS One10(7):1-17. PDF
• De Juan S, Gelcich S, Ospina-Alvarez A, Perez-Matus A & Fernandez M (2015) Applying an ecosystem service approach to unravel links between ecosystems and society in the coast of central Chile. Science of The Total Environment533:122-132. PDF
• Davis K, Kragt M, Gelcich S, Schilizzi S & Pannell D (2015). Accounting for enforcement costs in the spatial allocation of marine zones. Conservation Biology29(1): 226–237. PDF
• Estévez RA & Gelcich S (2015) Participative multi-criteria decision analysis in marine management and conservation: Research progress and the challenge of integrating value judgments and uncertainty. Marine Policy61:1-7. PDF
• Estévez RA, Anderson CB, Pizarro JC & Burgman MA (2015) Clarifying values, risk perceptions, and attitudes to resolve or avoid social conflicts in invasive species management. Conservation Biology29: 19–30. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12359. PDF
• Gelcich S,  Peralta L,  Donlan CJ,  Godoy N,  Ortiz V,  Tapia-Lewin S,  Vargas C,  Keim A,  Castilla JC,  Fernandez M &  Godoy F (2015) Alternative strategies for scaling up marine coastal biodiversity conservation in Chile. Maritime Studies14:5. PDF
• Gelcich S & Donlan CJ (2015) Incentivizing biodiversity conservation in artisanal fishing communities through territorial user rights and business model innovation. Conservation Biology29(4):1076-85. PDF
• Gelcich S, Peralta L, Donlan CJ, Godoy N, Ortiz V, Tapia-Lewin S, Vargas C, Kein A, Castilla JC, Fernández M & Godoy F (2015) Alternative strategies for scaling up marine coastal biodiversity conservation in Chile Maritime Studies14:5. PDF
• Marín A, Bodin O, Gelcich S & Crona B (2015) Social capital in post-disaster recovery trajectories: Insights from a longitudinal study of tsunami-impacted small-scale fisher organizations in Chile. Global Environmental Change 35:450-462. PDF
• Rivera A, Gelcich S,  García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2015) Assessing the sustainability and adaptive capacity of the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias, N. Spain. Ambio 45(2):230-240. PDF
• Reyes-Mendy F, Arriagada RA, Reyes-Paecke S, Tobar A (2014) Policy statement coherence: A methodological proposal to assess environmental public policies applied to water in Chile. Environmental Science & Policy. 42: 169-180. Doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.001. PDF
• Duarte CM,  Fulweiler RW, Lovelock CE,  Martinetto P, Saunders MI, Pandolfi JM,  Gelcich S &  Nixon SW (2014) Reconsidering Ocean Calamities. BioScience65(2): 130-139. doi: 1093/biosci/biu198. PDF
• Chilvers J, Lorenzoni I, Terry G, Buckley P, Pinnegar JK & Gelcich S (2014) Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings, understandings and responses. Global Environmental Change29: 165–179. PDF
• Gelcich S (2014) Towards polycentric governance of small-scale fisheries: insights from the new ‘Management Plans’ policy in Chile. Aquatic Conserv: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems24: 575–581. PDF
• Gelcich S, Buckley P, Pinnegar JK, Chilvers J, Lorenzoni I, Terry G, Guerrero M, Castilla JC, Valdebenito A & Duarte CM (2014) Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science: doi/10.1073/pnas.1417344111. PDF
• Graham WM, Gelcich S, Robinson KL, Duarte CM, Brotz L, Purcell JE, Madin LP, Mianzan H, Sutherland KR, Uye S, Pitt KA, Lucas CH, Bøgeberg M, Brodeur RD &Condon RH (2014) Linking human well-being and jellyfish:ecosystem services, impacts, and societal responses. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment12(9): 515–523, doi:10.1890/130298. PDF
• Kittinger JN, Koehn JZ, Le Cornu E, Ban NC, Gopnik M, Armsby M, Brooks C, Carr MH, Cinner JE, Cravens A, D’Iorio M, Erickson A, Finkbeiner EM, Foley MM, Fujita R, Gelcich S, St Martin K, Prahler E, Reineman DR, Shackeroff J, White C, Caldwell MR & Crowder LB (2014) A practical approach for putting people in ecosystem-based ocean planning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment12(8): 448–456 doi:10.1890/130267. PDF
• Marín A, Gelcich S & Castilla JC (2014) Ecosystem services and abrupt transformations in a coastal wetland social-ecological system: Tubul-Raqui after the 2010 earthquake in Chile. Ecology and Society19(1): 22. doi: 10.5751/ES-05633-190122. PDF
• Micheli F, De Leo G, Shester GG, Martone RG, Lluch-Cota SE, Butner C, Crowder LB, Fujita R, Gelcich S, Jain M, Lester SE, McCay B, Pelc R & Sáenz-Arroyo A (2014) A system-wide approach to supporting improvements in seafood production practices and outcomes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment12(5): 297–305, doi:10.1890/110257. PDF
• Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Florez L, Alcázar JL & Acuña JL (2014) Co-management in Europe:Insights from the gooseneck barnacle fishery in Asturias, Spain. Marine Policy50: 300–308. PDF

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Team

–  Principal Investigator:

Stefan Gelcich

– Associate Researchers: 

Rodrigo Arriagada

Francisca Reyes

Sergio Navarrete

– Postdoctoral associates: 

• Natalio Godoy: “Subtidal ecology and artisanal fisheries”.
• Rodrigo Estévez: “Multi-criterion analysis in marine conservation”.
• María José Martínez: «Ecosystem service management and conservation».

– Professionals and technicians: 

Nancy  Sanhueza

– PhD students

• Lauric Thiault
• Katherine Chiquillo
• Valentina Strappa
• Valeska San Martin
• Jaime Cursach

– Undergraduate students:

 Paloma Fernanda Bravo Torres
– International collaborators: 

• Joshua Cinner, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
• James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

Research:

The future of humanity depends on transitioning towards sustainability, on scales ranging from the local to the global. The line on sustainable natural resource management and policy (SNRMP) is at the core of this research. Key tenets of sustainability are the interconnections between human and environmental subsystems. Therefore, the SNRMP research line will provide a high quality interdisciplinary venue, which essentially aims at understanding coupled human–environment (i.e. social-ecological) systems with reference to focused problem-solving efforts, targeted towards natural resource management sustainability and policy. In doing so, the SNRMP will be a place-based, use-inspired research line for understanding and improving the dynamic relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing in selected Chilean social-ecological systems.

Objectives:

The SNRMP research line works on five aspects that are of crucial importance to advance in the science and practice of natural resource management and also to address key obstacles for sustainability in Chile. (1) Evidence-based impact assessment of existing policies over multiple ecosystem services. (2) Systematic analysis of novel science-based solutions for natural resource management problems. (3) Institutional capacity assessment of natural resource management policy instruments. (4) The design and piloting of innovative natural resource management strategies based on novel financing schemes (e.g. biodiversity offsetting). (5) Information and transfer capacities for social-ecological, institutional and policy monitoring and assessment.

 

Actual Research lines:

Subtidal Applied Ecology

Policy Coherence

Small-scale fisheries

Climate Change

Ecosystem Services

Evidence Based Conservation

Projections and Challenges:

We anticipate results that will inform on the design of novel, place-based, policy perspectives, and the transfer of knowledge to local stakeholders, NGOs, foundations and private firms. Findings of this research line will result in the operationalization of a set of policy schemes that allow verifiable social-ecological benefits, which could likely result in unparalleled gains for Chile’s sustainability and novel cross-sector alliances.

Publications: 

2014

1) Duarte CM,  Fulweiler RW, Lovelock CE,  Martinetto P, Saunders MI, Pandolfi JM,  Gelcich S &  Nixon SW (2014) Reconsidering Ocean Calamities. BioScience 65(2): 130-139. doi: 1093/biosci/biu198. PDF: Duarte et al 2014

2) Chilvers J, Lorenzoni I, Terry G, Buckley P, Pinnegar JK & Gelcich S (2014) Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings, understandings and responses. Global Environmental Change 29: 165–179. PDF: Chilvers et al 2014_GEC

3) Gelcich S (2014) Towards polycentric governance of small-scale fisheries: insights from the new ‘Management Plans’ policy in Chile. Aquatic Conserv: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems 24: 575–581. PDF: Gelcich 2014 Aquatic Conservation

4) Gelcich S, Buckley P, Pinnegar JK, Chilvers J, Lorenzoni I, Terry G, Guerrero M, Castilla JC, Valdebenito A & Duarte CM (2014) Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science: doi/10.1073/pnas.1417344111. PDF: Gelcich et al 2014_PNAS

5) Graham WM, Gelcich S, Robinson KL, Duarte CM, Brotz L, Purcell JE, Madin LP, Mianzan H, Sutherland KR, Uye S, Pitt KA, Lucas CH, Bøgeberg M, Brodeur RD &Condon RH (2014) Linking human well-being and jellyfish:ecosystem services, impacts, and societal responses. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(9): 515–523, doi:10.1890/130298. PDF: Graham et al 2014

6) Kittinger JN, Koehn JZ, Le Cornu E, Ban NC, Gopnik M, Armsby M, Brooks C, Carr MH, Cinner JE, Cravens A, D’Iorio M, Erickson A, Finkbeiner EM, Foley MM, Fujita R, Gelcich S, St Martin K, Prahler E, Reineman DR, Shackeroff J, White C, Caldwell MR & Crowder LB (2014) A practical approach for putting people in ecosystem-based ocean planning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(8): 448–456 doi:10.1890/130267. PDF: Kittinger et al_2014

7) Marín A, Gelcich S & Castilla JC (2014) Ecosystem services and abrupt transformations in a coastal wetland social-ecological system: Tubul-Raqui after the 2010 earthquake in Chile. Ecology and Society 19(1): 22. doi: 10.5751/ES-05633-190122. PDF: Marin et al 2014

8) Micheli F, De Leo G, Shester GG, Martone RG, Lluch-Cota SE, Butner C, Crowder LB, Fujita R, Gelcich S, Jain M, Lester SE, McCay B, Pelc R & Sáenz-Arroyo A (2014) A system-wide approach to supporting improvements in seafood production practices and outcomes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(5): 297–305, doi:10.1890/110257. PDF: Micheli et al 2014

9) Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Florez L, Alcázar JL & Acuña JL (2014) Co-management in Europe:Insights from the gooseneck barnacle fishery in Asturias, Spain. Marine Policy 50: 300–308. PDF: Rivera et al 2014

2015

1) Arriagada R, Sills E, Ferraro P & Pattanayak S (2015) Do Payments pay off? Evidence from participation in Costa Rica’s PES program. PLoS One 10(7):1-17. PDF

2) De Juan S, Gelcich S, Ospina-Alvarez A, Perez-Matus A & Fernandez M (2015) Applying an ecosystem service approach to unravel links between ecosystems and society in the coast of central Chile. Science of The Total Environment 533:122-132. PDF

3) Davis K, Kragt M, Gelcich S, Schilizzi S & Pannell D (2015). Accounting for enforcement costs in the spatial allocation of marine zones. Conservation Biology 29(1): 226–237. PDF: Davis et al 2015_Conservation Biology

4) Estévez RA & Gelcich S (2015) Participative multi-criteria decision analysis in marine management and conservation: Research progress and the challenge of integrating value judgments and uncertainty. Marine Policy 61:1-7. PDF

5) Estévez RA, Anderson CB, Pizarro JC & Burgman MA (2015) Clarifying values, risk perceptions, and attitudes to resolve or avoid social conflicts in invasive species management. Conservation Biology 29: 19–30. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12359. PDF: Estévez et al 2014

6) Gelcich S,  Peralta L,  Donlan CJ,  Godoy N,  Ortiz V,  Tapia-Lewin S,  Vargas C,  Keim A,  Castilla JC,  Fernandez M &  Godoy F (2015) Alternative strategies for scaling up marine coastal biodiversity conservation in Chile. Maritime Studies 14:5. PDF: Gelcich et al maritime studies 2015

7) Gelcich S & Donlan CJ (2015) Incentivizing biodiversity conservation in artisanal fishing communities through territorial user rights and business model innovation. Conservation Biology 29(4):1076-85. PDF

8) Gelcich S, Peralta L, Donlan CJ, Godoy N, Ortiz V, Tapia-Lewin S, Vargas C, Kein A, Castilla JC, Fernández M & Godoy F (2015) Alternative strategies for scaling up marine coastal biodiversity conservation in Chile Maritime Studies 14:5. PDF

9) Marín A, Bodin O, Gelcich S & Crona B (2015) Social capital in post-disaster recovery trajectories: Insights from a longitudinal study of tsunami-impacted small-scale fisher organizations in Chile. Global Environmental Change 35:450-462. PDF

10) Rivera A, Gelcich S,  García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2015) Assessing the sustainability and adaptive capacity of the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias, N. Spain. Ambio 45(2):230-240. PDF

11) Reyes-Mendy F, Arriagada RA, Reyes-Paecke S, Tobar A (2014) Policy statement coherence: A methodological proposal to assess environmental public policies applied to water in Chile. Environmental Science & Policy. 42: 169-180. Doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.001. PDF: Reyes-Medy et al 2014

2016

1) Arriagada R, Echeverría C & Moya D (2016) Creating protected areas on public lands: is there room for additional conservation? PLoS One 11(2): 1-16. PDF

2) Biggs D, Amar F, Valdebenito A & Gelcich S (2016) Potential Synergies between Nature-Based Tourism and Sustainable Use of Marine Resources: Insights from Dive Tourism in Territorial User Rights for Fisheries in Chile. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0148862. PDF

3) Bonicelli J, Tyburczy J, Tapia FJ, Finke GR, Parragué M, Dudas S, Menge BA & Navarrete SA (2016) Diel vertical migration and cross-shore distribution of barnacle and bivalve larvae in the central Chile inner-shelf. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 485: 35-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.08.013. PDF

4) Castilla JC, Espinosa J,Yamashiro C, Melo O & Gelcich S (2016) telecoupling between catch, farming, and international trade for the gastropods Concholepas concholepas (loco) and Haliotis spp. (abalone). Journal of Shellfish Research 35(2): 1–8. PDF

5) Crona BI, Basurto X, Squires D, Gelcich S, Daw TM, Khan A, Havice E, Chomo V, Troell M, Buchary EA & Allison EH (2016) Towards a typology of interactions between small-scale fisheries and global seafood trade, Marine Policy 65:1-10. PDF

6) Cuenca P, Arriagada R & Echeverría C (2016) How much deforestation do protected areas avoid in tropical Andean landscapes? Environmental Science & Policy. 56: 56-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.10.014. PDF

7) Flores G, Aguilera JC, Almar R, Cienfuegos R & Navarrete SA (2016) A new remote sensing method for high-resolution quantification of submersion regimes in wave exposed shores. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14: 736–749. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10133. PDF

8) Gelcich S & O’Keeffe J (2016) Emerging frontiers in perceptions research for aquatic conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems 26: 986–994. doi: 10.1002/aqc.2714. PDF

9) Godoy N, Gelcich S, Castilla JC, Lima M & Smith A (2016) Artisanal spearfishery in temperate nearshore ecosystems of Chile: Exploring the catch composition, revenue, and management needs. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 8(1): 436-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2016.1185062. PDF

10) Kéfi S, Miele V, Wieters EA, Navarrete SA & Berlow EL (2016) How structured is the entangled bank? The surprisingly simple organization of multiplex ecological networks leads to increased persistence and resilience. PLoS Biol 14(8): e1002527. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002527. PDF

11) Oyanedel R, Marín A, Castilla JC & Gelcich S (2016) Establishing marine protected areas through bottom-up processes: insights from two contrasting initiatives in Chile.  Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26: 184–195. PDF

12) Rahimi S, Gaines SD, Gelcich S, Deacon R & Ovando D (2016) Factors driving the implementation of fishery reforms. Marine Policy. 71: 222-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.06.005. PDF

13) Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Florez L & Acuña JL (2016) Incorporating landscape metrics into invertebrate fisheries management: case study of the gooseneck barnacle in Asturias (N. Spain). ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw029. PDF

14) Vásquez F, Gelcich S, Lerdón XP & Montealegre F (2016) The role of information in changing tourists behavioral preferences at the Humboldt penguin reserve in northern Chile. Ocean & Coastal Management, 125: 63-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.03.003. PDF

 2017

1) Crona B, Gelcich S & Bodin 0 (2017) The Importance of Interplay Between Leadership and Social Capital in Shaping Outcomes of Rights-Based Fisheries Governance. World Development  91:70-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.006. PDF

2) de Juan S, Gelcich S & Fernandez M (2017) Integrating stakeholder perceptions and preferences on ecosystem services in the management of coastal areas. Ocean & Coastal Management. 136: 38-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.11.019. PDF

3) Gelcich S, Cinner J^, Donlan CJ, Tapia-Lewin S^,  Godoy N & Castilla JC (2017) Fishers’ perceptions on the Chilean coastal TURF system after two decades: problems, benefits, and emerging needs. Bulletin of Marine Science 93(1): 53-67(15). https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1082. PDF

4) Gelcich S, Vargas C, Carreras MJ, Castilla JC & Donlan CJ (2017) Achieving biodiversity benefits with offsets: Research gaps, challenges, and needs. Ambio 46:184–189. DOI 10.1007/s13280-016-0810-9. PDF

5) Mizrahi D, Pereira SF, Navarrete SA & Flores AAV (2017) Allelopathic effects on the sun‑coral invasion: facilitation, inhibition and patterns of local biodiversity. Marine Biology 164:139. DOI 10.1007/s00227-017-3164-3. PDF

6) Nakandakari A, Caillaux M, Zavala J, Gelcich S & Ghersi F (2017) The importance of understanding self-governance efforts in coastal fisheries in Peru: insights from La Islilla and Ilo. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1):199–216. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1087. PDF

7) Pérez-Matus A, Ospina-Alvarez A, Camus PA, Carrasco SA, Fernandez M, Gelcich S, Godoy N, Ojeda FP, Pardo LM, Rozbaczylo N, Subida MD, Thiel M, Wieters EA & Navarrete SA (2017) Temperate rocky subtidal reef community reveals human impacts across the entire food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 567:1-6. PDF

8) Rivera A, Gelcich G, García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2017) Trends, drivers, and lessons from a long-term data series of the Asturian (northern Spain) gooseneck barnacle territorial use rights system. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1):35–51. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1080. PDF

9) Rivera A, Gelcich S, García-Flórez L & Acuña JL (2017) Heterogeneous management and conservation perceptions within the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias (N. Spain). Marine Policy 81: 229-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.020. PDF

10) Thiault L, Collin A, Chlous F, Gelcich S & Claudet J (2017) Combining participatory and socioeconomic approaches to map fishing effort in small-scale fisheries. Plos One 12(5): e0176862. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176862. PDF

11) Van Holt T, Crona B, Johnson JC & Gelcich S (2017) The consequences of landscape change on fishing strategies. Science of The Total Environment 579: 930-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.052. PDF

DESCRIPCIÓN:

En esta línea de investigación vamos a combinar herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas de la dinámica de poblaciones para predecir y explicar los cambios de los sistemas socio-ecológicos. Creemos que la teoría de dinámica de poblaciones tiene herramientas capaces de enfrentar a la interfaz de los problemas ecológico-sociales-económicos. Vamos a aplicar la teoría ecológica general para explicar las causas de los cambios dinámicos en los sistemas ecológicos y humanos específicos. Por otra parte, en esta línea de investigación se esperan para producir predicciones científicas y de transferencia básicos y estrategias de manejo para las instituciones públicas y privadas que se ocupan del manejo de pesquerías, el control de plagas, la producción de alimentos y la salud humana.

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OBJETIVOS:

Producir ciencia básica y aplicada para colaborar con las instituciones públicas frente a la compleja interacción entre los recursos naturales (pesca / rendimiento de los cultivos); los sistemas humanos (enfermedades humanas: demografía / economía) y sus respuestas comunes al cambio global.

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PROYECCIONES:

Las ciencias relativamente modernas de la economía, la demografía humana y dinámica de la población comenzaron en 1798 con la publicación de Malthus. Su principio básico era la idea de que la población crece de manera geométrica mientras que los recursos sólo se expanden en forma aritmética. Como consecuencia, las previsiones de crecimiento de la población ignoran en gran medida las fuerzas económicas y ecológicas. Del mismo modo, los economistas se centran en la comprensión de la relación entre la población, el crecimiento económico y el cambio tecnológico mientras que descuidan el papel de los recursos naturales. En esta línea de investigación, vamos a utilizar elementos conceptuales derivados de la teoría ecológica en combinación con la demografía humana y la economía para analizar, comprender y predecir la retroalimentación mutua entre los cambios demográficos y socio-económicos en las sociedades humanas que se enfrentan al reto del cambio global y la sustentabilidad.

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EQUIPO:

Investigador Principal:

Mauricio Lima

Investigadores asociados:

Sergio Estay, Rodrigo Wiff, Juan Pablo Luna, Rosana Ferrero, Eugenia Gayo y Ariel Farías.

Postdoctorados:

Mariella Canales, Felipe Maurin

Profesionales y Técnicos

José Tomás Montero, Santiago Gacitúa y Vanessa Weinberger

Estudiantes de postgrado:

Abraham Albornoz, Alejandro Fuentes, Carla Rivera, Daniela López, Magdalena Huerta, Manuel Muñoz, Víctor Castelazo y Paola Correa.

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PUBLICACIONES:

 

• De Wysiecki AM, Milessi AC, Wiff R & Jaureguizar AJ (2018) Highest catch of the vulnerable broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus in the south-west Atlantic. Journal of Fish Biology 92: 543-548. Doi: 10.1111/jfb.13532. PDF
• Ferrero R, Lima M & Gonzalez-Andujar JL (2018) Crop production structure and stability under climate change in South America. Annals of Applied Biology 172: 65-73. DOI: 10.1111/aab.12402. PDF
• Wiff R, Flores A, Neira S & Caneco B (2018) Estimating steepness of the stock-recruitment relationship in Chilean fish stocks using meta-analysis. Fisheries Research 200: 61-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2017.12.004. PDF
• Ferrero R, Lima M, Davis AS & Gonzalez-Andujar JL (2017) Weed Diversity Affects Soybean and Maize Yield in a Long Term Experiment in Michigan, USA. Plant Sci. 8:236. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00236. PDF
• Flores A, Wiff R, Díaz E & Carvajal B (2017) Temporal variations of potential fecundity of southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis australis) in the Southeast Pacific. Journal of Sea Research 126: 26-36. Doi: 10.1016/j.seares.2017.06.015. PDF
• López Quintero FO, Contreras-Reyes JE, Wiff R & Arellano-Valle RB (2017) Flexible Bayesian analysis of the von Bertalanffy growth function with the use of a log-skew-t Fisheries Bulletin 115(1):13–26 (2017). doi: 10.7755/FB.115.1.2. PDF
• López Quintero FO, Contreras-Reyes JE & Wiff R (2017) Incorporating uncertainty into a length-based estimator of natural mortality in fish populations. Fisheries Bulletin115:355–364. doi: 10.7755/FB.115.3.6. PDF
• Lopez DN, Camus PA, Valdivia N & Estay SA (2017) High temporal variability in the occurrence of consumer-resource interactions in ecological networks. Oikos 126: 1699-1707. Doi: 10.1111/oik.04285. PDF
• Marcelo A, San Martín E, Leal T & Canales M (2017) Spatial and bathymetric occurrence of Brama australis off the Chilean Coast and in the South Pacific Ocean. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 52: 405-409. Doi: 10.4067/S0718-19572017000200020. PDF
• Naulin PI, Valenzuela G & Estay SA (2017) Size matters: point pattern analysis biases the estimation of spatial properties of stomata distribution. New Phytologist 213: 1956-1960. Doi: 10.1111/nph.14305. PDF
• Shanafelt DW, Jones G, Lima M, Perrings C & Chowell G (2017) Forecasting the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the UK. EcoHealth. Doi: 10.1007/s10393-017-1293-2. PDF
• Weinberger VP, Quininao C & Marquet PA (2017) Innovation and the growth of human. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372: 20160415. Doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0415. PDF
• Wiff R, Barrientos MA, Segura AM & Milessi AC (2017). The invariance of production per unit of food consumed in fish populations. Theory Biosci. doi: 10.1007/s12064-017-0241-6. PDF
• Boher F, Trefault N, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2016) Ectotherms in Variable Thermal Landscapes: A Physiological Evaluation of the Invasive  Potential of Fruit Flies Species. Frontiers in Physiology7:302. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00302 PDF
• Canales TM, Law R & Blanchard JL (2016) Shifts in plankton size spectra modulate growth and coexistence of anchovy and sardine in upwelling systems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73:611-621. PDF
• Contreras-Reyes JE, Canales TM & Rojas PM (2016) Influence of climate variability on anchovy reproductive timing off northern Chile. Journal of Marine Systems. 164: 67-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.08.006. PDF
• Espíndola F, Quiroz JC, Wiff R & Yañez E (2016) Incorporating sea surface temperature into the stock-recruitment relationship: Applications to Jack Mackerel (trachurus murphyi) off Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía51(1):137-145. PDF
• Godoy N, Gelcich S, Castilla JC, Lima M & Smith A (2016) Artisanal spearfishery in temperate nearshore ecosystems of Chile: Exploring the catch composition, revenue, and management needs. Marine and Coastal Fisheries8(1): 436-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2016.1185062. PDF
• Jaureguizar AJ, Wiff R & Luz Clara M (2016) Role of the preferred habitat availability for small shark (Mustelus schmitti) on the interannual variation of abundance in a large Southwest Atlantic Coastal System (El Rincón, 39°–41°S). Aquatic Living Resources29 (3): 305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/alr/2016031. PDF
• Labra FA, Moreno RA, Alvarado SA, Carrasco F, Estay SA & Rivadeneira MM (2016) The relative role of ecological interactions and environmental variables on the population dynamics of marine benthic polychaetes. Marine Biodiversity(2016): 1-10. DOI 10.1007/s12526-016-0569-z. PDF
• Lima M, Christie DA, Santoro MC, Latorre C (2016) Coupled socio-environmental changes triggered indigenous aymara depopulation of the semiarid Andes of Tarapacá-Chile during the late 19th-20th centuries. Plos One11(8): e0160580. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160580. PDF
• Montero JT, Chesney TA, Bauer JR, Froeschke JT & Graham J (2016), Brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) density distribution in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an approach using boosted regression trees. Fisheries Oceanography25: 337–348. PDF
• Montero JT, Martinez-Rincon RO, Heppell SS, Hall M & M Ewal  (2016) Characterizing environmental and spatial variables associated with the incidental catch of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific purse-seine fishery. Fisheries Oceanography, 25: 1–14. doi: 10.1111/fog.12130 PDF
• Naulin PI, Valenzuela G & Estay SA (2017) Size matters: point pattern analysis biases the estimation of spatial properties of stomata distribution. New Phytologist213: 1956–1960. doi: 10.1111/nph.14305. PDF
• Pavez-Fox M & Estay SA (2016) Correspondence between the habitat of the threatened pudú (Cervidae) and the national protected-area system of Chile. BMC Ecol.16:1. PDF
• Aguilera SE, Cole J, Finkbeiner EM, Le Cornu E, Ban NC, et al. (2015) Managing Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries for Adaptive Capacity: Insights from Dynamic Social-Ecological Drivers of Change in Monterey Bay. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118992. PDF
• Canales TM, Law R, Wiff R & JL Blanchard (2014) Changes in the size-structure of a multispecies pelagic fishery off Northern Chile. Fisheries Research161 (2015) 261–268. PDF
• Flores A, Wiff R & E Díaz (2015) Using the gonadosomatic index to estimate the maturity ogive: application to Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi gayi). ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsu155. PDF
• Flores A, Wiff R, Díaz E & Gálvez P (2015) Reproductive biology of female cardinalfish,Epigonus crassicaudusde Buen, 1959. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 31: 718–723.  García de León D, García-Mozo H, Galán C, Alcázar P, Lima M & González-Andújar JL (2015) Disentangling the effects of feedback structure and climate on Poaceae annual airborne pollen fluctuations and the possible consequences of climate change. Sci Total Environ.530-531:103-9. PDF
• Januario SM, Estay SA, Labra FA & Lima M (2015) Combining environmental suitability and population abundances to evaluate the invasive potential of the tunicate Ciona intestinalisalong the temperate South American coast. PeerJ 3:e1357 PDF
• Lima M, Estay SA, Fuentes R, Rubilar P, Broutin H & Chowell-Puente G (2015) Whooping cough dynamics in Chile (1932-2010): disease temporal fluctuations across a north-south gradient. BMC Infect Dis.15:590. PDF
• Lima M & Abades S (2015) Malthusian factors as proximal drivers of human population crisis at Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution3: 130. PDF
• Sepúlveda M, Pelican K, Cross P, Eguren A,Singer R(2015) Fine-scale movements of rural free-ranging dogs in conservation areas in the temperate rainforest of the coastal range of southern Chile, Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde80(4):290-297. doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2015.03.001. PDF
• Sepúlveda MA, Seguel M, Alvarado-Rybak M, Verdugo C, Muñoz-Zanzi C & Tamayo R (2015) Postmortem Findings in Four South American Sea Lions (Otaria byronia) from an Urban Colony in Valdivia, Chile. Journal of Wildlife Diseases51(1): 279-282. PDF
• Silva CP, García CE, Estay SA, Barbosa O (2015) Bird Richness and Abundance in Response to Urban Form in a Latin American City: Valdivia, Chile as a Case Study. PLoS ONE10(9): e0138120. PDF
• Wiff R, Roa-Ureta RH, Borchers DL, Milessi AC & Barrientos MA (2015) Estimating Consumption to Biomass Ratio in Non-Stationary Harvested Fish Populations. PLoS ONE10(11): e0141538. PDF
• Wiff R, Barrientos MA, Milessi AC, Quiroz JCC & J Harwood (2015) Modelling production per unit of food consumed in fish populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 365 (2015) 67–75. PDF
• Aranis A, Muñoz G, Quiroz JC, Wiff R, Gómez A & MA Barrientos (2014).  Identificación de rasgos morfológicos para una rápida diferenciación de sardina austral (Sprattus fuegensis) y sardina común (Strangomera bentincki).  Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research42(5): 1063-1071. DOI: 10.3856/vol42-issue5-fulltext-11. PDF
• Sepúlveda MA, Singer RS, Silva-Rodríguez EA, Eguren A, Stowhas P, Pelican K (2014) Invasive American mink: linking pathogen risk between domestic and endangered carnivores. Ecohealth 11(3):409-19. doi: 10.1007/s10393-014-0917-z. PDF
• Estay SA, M Lima& F Bozinovic (2014) The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a  warming world. Oikos123:131-140. PDF
• Estay SA, Labra FA, Sepulveda RD, Bacigalupe LD (2014) Evaluating Habitat Suitability for the Establishment of Monochamus spp.through Climate-Based Niche Modeling. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102592. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102592. PDF
• Ferrero R, Lima M & Gonzalez-Andujar JL (2014) Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Maize Yield Water Constraints under Climate Change in Spain. PLoS ONE9(5): e98220. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098220. PDF
• García de León D, Freckleton RP, Lima M, Navarrete L, Castellanos E & González-Andújar JL(2014) Identifying the effect of density dependence, agricultural practices and climate variables on the long-term dynamics of weed populations. Weed Research54: 556–564. PDF
• Lima M (2014) Climate change and the population collapse during the “Great Famine” in pre-industrial Europe. Ecology and Evolution4(3):284–291. PDF

Team

–  Principal Investigator :

Mauricio Lima

– Associate Researchers: 

Sergio Estay

Rodrigo Wiff

Juan Pablo Luna

– Postdoctoral associates: 

• Teresa Mariella Canales: “Fishery ecology”.
• Roberto Chavez: “Remote sensing EBV for assessing the spatial distribution and intensity of insect outbreaks in broadleaf Nothofagus forests”.

– Professionals and technicians:

Rosana Ferrero

Carla Rivera

– Graduate students

Doctorate:

• Abraham Albornoz
• Daniela López
• Manuel Muñoz
• María J Orellana
• Paola Correa

Undergraduate:

• Alejandro Fuentes

Research:

We  combine conceptual and methodological tools of population dynamics to predict and explain changes in  socio- ecological systems. We believe that the theory of population dynamics have tools capables of facing the interface of the economic – social -ecological problems. We will apply the general ecological theory to explain the causes of the dynamic changes in specific ecological and human systems. Moreover, in this line of research is expected to produce scientific and basic transfer predictions and management strategies for public and private institutions dealing with fisheries management, pest control, food production and human health.

Objectives:

Produce basic and applied science to collaborate with public institutions that face the complex interaction between natural resources (fishing/yields); human systems (human diseases: demographics/economics) and common responses to global change.

Actual research lines:

Fisheries management

Dynamics yields

Agricultural pest control

Infectious diseases

Human population dynamics

Projections and Challenges:

The relatively modern science of economics, human demography and population dynamics began in 1798 with the publication of Malthus. Its basic principle was the idea that population grows geometrically while resources expand only arithmetically. As a result, forecasts for population growth largely ignore economic and ecological forces. Similarly, economists focus on understanding the relationship between population, economic growth and technological change while neglecting the role of natural resources. In this research, we will use conceptual elements derived from ecological theory in combination with human demography and economics to analyze, understand and predict the mutual feedback between demographic changes and socio-economic in human societies who face the challenge of global change and sustainability.

Publications:

2014

1) Aranis A, Muñoz G, Quiroz JC, Wiff R, Gómez A & MA Barrientos (2014).  Identificación de rasgos morfológicos para una rápida diferenciación de sardina austral (Sprattus fuegensis) y sardina común (Strangomera bentincki).  Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 42(5): 1063-1071. DOI: 10.3856/vol42-issue5-fulltext-11. PDF: Aranis_et_al_lajar_2014

2) Sepúlveda MA, Singer RS, Silva-Rodríguez EA, Eguren A, Stowhas P, Pelican K (2014) Invasive American mink: linking pathogen risk between domestic and endangered carnivores. Ecohealth 11(3):409-19. doi: 10.1007/s10393-014-0917-z. PDF: Sepulveda et al. 2014

3) Estay SA, M Lima& F Bozinovic (2014) The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a  warming world. Oikos 123:131-140. PDF: Estay et al (2014) Oikos Thermal Variability_2014

4) Estay SA, Labra FA, Sepulveda RD, Bacigalupe LD (2014) Evaluating Habitat Suitability for the Establishment of Monochamus spp. through Climate-Based Niche Modeling. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102592. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102592. PDF: Estay et al. 2014PlosOne

5) Ferrero R, Lima M & Gonzalez-Andujar JL (2014) Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Maize Yield Water Constraints under Climate Change in Spain. PLoS ONE 9(5): e98220. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098220. PDF: Ferrero et al. 2014

6) García de León D, Freckleton RP, Lima M, Navarrete L, Castellanos E & González-Andújar JL(2014) Identifying the effect of density dependence, agricultural practices and climate variables on the long-term dynamics of weed populations. Weed Research 54: 556–564. PDF: García de León et al. 2014

7) Lima M (2014) Climate change and the population collapse during the “Great Famine” in pre-industrial Europe. Ecology and Evolution 4(3):284–291. PDF: Lima 2014

2015

1) Aguilera SE, Cole J, Finkbeiner EM, Le Cornu E, Ban NC, et al. (2015) Managing Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries for Adaptive Capacity: Insights from Dynamic Social-Ecological Drivers of Change in Monterey Bay. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118992. PDF: Aguilera_etal_2015

2) Canales TM, Law R, Wiff R & JL Blanchard (2014) Changes in the size-structure of a multispecies pelagic fishery off Northern Chile. Fisheries Research 161 (2015) 261–268. PDF: Canales_et_al_2015

3) Flores A, Wiff R & E Díaz (2015) Using the gonadosomatic index to estimate the maturity ogive: application to Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi gayi). ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsu155. PDF: Flores_et_al_2015

4) Flores A, Wiff R, Díaz E & Gálvez P (2015) Reproductive biology of female cardinalfish,Epigonus crassicaudus de Buen, 1959. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 31: 718–723.  García de León D, García-Mozo H, Galán C, Alcázar P, Lima M & González-Andújar JL (2015) Disentangling the effects of feedback structure and climate on Poaceae annual airborne pollen fluctuations and the possible consequences of climate change. Sci Total Environ.530-531:103-9. PDF

5) Januario SM, Estay SA, Labra FA & Lima M (2015) Combining environmental suitability and population abundances to evaluate the invasive potential of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis along the temperate South American coast. PeerJ 3:e1357 PDF

6) Lima M, Estay SA, Fuentes R, Rubilar P, Broutin H & Chowell-Puente G (2015) Whooping cough dynamics in Chile (1932-2010): disease temporal fluctuations across a north-south gradient. BMC Infect Dis. 15:590. PDF

7) Lima M & Abades S (2015) Malthusian factors as proximal drivers of human population crisis at Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3: 130. PDF

8) Sepúlveda M, Pelican K, Cross P, Eguren A,Singer R(2015) Fine-scale movements of rural free-ranging dogs in conservation areas in the temperate rainforest of the coastal range of southern Chile, Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 80(4):290-297. doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2015.03.001. PDF: Sepulveda et al. 2015

9) Sepúlveda MA, Seguel M, Alvarado-Rybak M, Verdugo C, Muñoz-Zanzi C & Tamayo R (2015) Postmortem Findings in Four South American Sea Lions (Otaria byronia) from an Urban Colony in Valdivia, Chile. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51(1): 279-282. PDF: Sepulveda et al. 2015b

10) Silva CP, García CE, Estay SA, Barbosa O (2015) Bird Richness and Abundance in Response to Urban Form in a Latin American City: Valdivia, Chile as a Case Study. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138120. PDF

11) Wiff R, Roa-Ureta RH, Borchers DL, Milessi AC & Barrientos MA (2015) Estimating Consumption to Biomass Ratio in Non-Stationary Harvested Fish Populations. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141538. PDF

12) Wiff R, Barrientos MA, Milessi AC, Quiroz JCC & J Harwood (2015) Modelling production per unit of food consumed in fish populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 365 (2015) 67–75. PDF: Wiff_et_al_2014

2016

1) Boher F, Trefault N, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2016) Ectotherms in Variable Thermal Landscapes: A Physiological Evaluation of the Invasive  Potential of Fruit Flies Species. Frontiers in Physiology 7:302. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00302 PDF

2) Canales TM, Law R & Blanchard JL (2016) Shifts in plankton size spectra modulate growth and coexistence of anchovy and sardine in upwelling systems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73:611-621. PDF

3) Contreras-Reyes JE, Canales TM & Rojas PM (2016) Influence of climate variability on anchovy reproductive timing off northern Chile. Journal of Marine Systems. 164: 67-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.08.006. PDF

4) Espíndola F, Quiroz JC, Wiff R & Yañez E (2016) Incorporating sea surface temperature into the stock-recruitment relationship: Applications to Jack Mackerel (trachurus murphyi) off Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 51(1):137-145. PDF

5) Godoy N, Gelcich S, Castilla JC, Lima M & Smith A (2016) Artisanal spearfishery in temperate nearshore ecosystems of Chile: Exploring the catch composition, revenue, and management needs. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 8(1): 436-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2016.1185062. PDF

6) Jaureguizar AJ, Wiff R & Luz Clara M (2016) Role of the preferred habitat availability for small shark (Mustelus schmitti) on the interannual variation of abundance in a large Southwest Atlantic Coastal System (El Rincón, 39°–41°S). Aquatic Living Resources 29 (3): 305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/alr/2016031. PDF

7) Labra FA, Moreno RA, Alvarado SA, Carrasco F, Estay SA & Rivadeneira MM (2016) The relative role of ecological interactions and environmental variables on the population dynamics of marine benthic polychaetes. Marine Biodiversity (2016): 1-10. DOI 10.1007/s12526-016-0569-z. PDF

8) Lima M, Christie DA, Santoro MC, Latorre C (2016) Coupled socio-environmental changes triggered indigenous aymara depopulation of the semiarid Andes of Tarapacá-Chile during the late 19th-20th centuries. Plos One 11(8): e0160580. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160580. PDF

9) Montero JT, Chesney TA, Bauer JR, Froeschke JT & Graham J (2016), Brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) density distribution in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an approach using boosted regression trees. Fisheries Oceanography 25: 337–348. PDF

10) Montero JT, Martinez-Rincon RO, Heppell SS, Hall M & M Ewal  (2016) Characterizing environmental and spatial variables associated with the incidental catch of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific purse-seine fishery. Fisheries Oceanography, 25: 1–14. doi: 10.1111/fog.12130 PDF: Montero et al. 2016

11) Naulin PI, Valenzuela G & Estay SA (2017) Size matters: point pattern analysis biases the estimation of spatial properties of stomata distribution. New Phytologist 213: 1956–1960. doi: 10.1111/nph.14305. PDF

12) Pavez-Fox M & Estay SA (2016) Correspondence between the habitat of the threatened pudú (Cervidae) and the national protected-area system of Chile. BMC Ecol.16:1. PDF

2017

1) Ferrero R, Lima M, Davis AS & Gonzalez-Andujar JL (2017) Weed Diversity Affects Soybean and Maize Yield in a Long Term Experiment in Michigan, USA. Front. Plant Sci. 8:236. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00236. PDF

2) López Quintero FO, Contreras-Reyes JE, Wiff R & Arellano-Valle RB (2017) Flexible Bayesian analysis of the von Bertalanffy growth function with the use of a log-skew-t distribution. Fisheries Bulletin 115(1):13–26 (2017). doi: 10.7755/FB.115.1.2. PDF

3) López Quintero FO, Contreras-Reyes JE & Wiff R (2017) Incorporating uncertainty into a length-based estimator of natural mortality in fish populations. Fisheries Bulletin 115:355–364. doi: 10.7755/FB.115.3.6. PDF

4) Wiff R, Barrientos MA, Segura AM & Milessi AC (2017). The invariance of production per unit of food consumed in fish populations. Theory Biosci. doi: 10.1007/s12064-017-0241-6. PDF

DESCRIPCIÓN:

Mis intereses de investigación abarcan una amplia gama de temas, pero en su mayoría, dedicados a la fisiología ecológica con fuertes lazos en la ecología del comportamiento, ecología evolutiva y la biogeografía. En mi opinión, la comprensión de los procesos ecológicos y patrones evolutivos globales subyacentes sólo puede lograrse mediante una integración de estas disciplinas. El estudio de los mecanismos, los rendimientos y las tolerancias fisiológicas, contribuyen, según el taxón y la escala de estudio, a explicar la distribución, la abundancia y el éxito evolutivo de las especies y poblaciones endémicas, como introducidas (pestes, vectores de enfermedades) y de valor comercial (cultivos). En mi opinión, este esfuerzo se está convirtiendo cada vez más importante debido al ritmo acelerado de las perturbaciones ambientales inducidos por el hombre.

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OBJETIVOS:

• Estudiar las respuestas fisiológicas, ecológicas y evolutivas al  cambio global
• Integrar aspectos de fisiología con manejode la biodiversidad
• Utilizar nuevas herramientas experimentales (genómica, biología molecular, toxicología) y teóricas (modelos matemáticos) para entender y predecir el impacto de  los cambios ambientales sobre la biodiversidad.

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PROYECCIONES:

Entregar explicaciones y transferir a la sociedad conocimiento y propuestas sobre los impactos y respuestas de los organismos nativos, introducidos y pestes a los cambios ambientales rápidos.

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EQUIPO:

Investigador Principal:

Francisco Bozinovic

Investigadores asociados:

Pablo Saba, Roberto Nespolo y Enrico Rezende

Postdoctorados:

Grisel Cavieres, Natalia Ramírez, Yanina Poblete y Daniel Aguilera

Profesionales y Técnicos:

José Miguel Bogdanovich

Estudiantes de postgrado:

Cristóbal Narvaez, Daniela Haro, Gabriela Piriz, Guillermo Ramírez, Jaiber Solano, José Alruiz, Julian Quintero, Natalia Ricote, Sebastian Martel, Karen Huentenao, Ma. Jose Orellana, Guillermo Ramírez, Renato Borras, y Patricia Aldea.

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PUBLICACIONES:

• Cortes PA, Bozinovic F & Blier PU (2018) Mitochondrial phenotype during torpor: Modulation of mitochondrial electron transport system in the Chilean mouse–opossum Thylamys elegans. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 221: 7-14. Doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.12.014.
• Quintero-Galvis JF, Paleo-López R, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Poupin MJ, Ledger T, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Anto A, Travisano M & Nespolo RF (2018) Exploring the evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under bacteria environment: An experimental phylogenetics approach. Ecology and Evolution 8: 4619-4630. Doi: 10.1002/ece3.3979. PDF
• Nespolo RF, González-Lagos C, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Elfwing M, Garitano-Zavala A, Manosa S, Alonso JC & Altimiras J (2018) Aerobic power and flight capacity in birds: a phylogenetic test of the heart-size hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Biology Doi10.1242/jeb.162693.
• Poblete Y, Gutiérrez V, Cid V, Newsome SD, Sabat P & Vasquez RA (2018) Intraspecific variation in exploratory behavior and elevational affinity in a widely distributed songbird. Oecologia 186: 931-938. Doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4076-8. PDF
• Ramírez-Otarola N, Espinoza J, Kalergis AM & Sabat P (2018) Is there an effect of environmental temperature on the response to an antigen and the metabolic rate in pups of the rodent Octodon degus? Journal of Thermal Biology 71: 17-23. Doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.10.005. PDF
• Rivera DS, Lindsay CB, Codocedo JF, Carreño LE, Cabrera D, Arrese MA, Vio CP, Bozinovic F & Inestrosa NC (2018) Long-Term, Fructose-Induced Metabolic Syndrome-Like Condition Is Associated with Higher Metabolism, Reduced Synaptic Plasticity and Cognitive Impairment in Octodon degus. Molecular Neurobiology. Doi: 10.1007/s12035-018-0969-0. PDF
• Bacigalupe LD, Moore AJ, Nespolo RF, Rezende EL & Bozinovic F (2017) Quantitative Genetic Modeling of the Parental Care Hypothesis for the Evolution of Endothermy. Frontiers in Physiology Doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.01005. PDF
• Franco M, Contreras C, Place NJ, Bozinovic F & Nespolo RF (2017) Leptin levels, seasonality and thermal acclimation in the Microbiotherid marsupial : Does photoperiod play a role?. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology203: 233-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.09.025. PDF
• Maldonado K, Bozinovic F, Newsome SD & Sabat P (2017) Testing the niche variation hypothesis in a community of passerine birds.Ecology 98(4): 903–908. PDF
• Negrete P, Sallaberry M, Barceló G, Maldonado K, Perona F, McGill R, Quillfeldt P & Sabat P (2017) Temporal variation in isotopic composition of Pygoscelis penguins at Ardley Island, Antarctic: Are foraging habits impacted by environmental change? Polar Biology40:903–916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2017-8. PDF
• Nespolo RF, Solano-Iguaran JJ & Bozinovic F. (2017). Phylogenetic Analysis Supports the Aerobic-Capacity Model for the Evolution of Endothermy. American Naturalist189: 13–27. DOI: 10.1086/689598. PDF
• Peña-Villalobos I, Piriz G, Palma V & Sabat P (2017) Energetic Effects of Pre-hatch Albumen Removal on Embryonic Development and Early Ontogeny in Gallus gallus. Frontiers in Physiology Doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00690. PDF
• Rader JA, Newsome SD, Sabat P, Chesser RT, Dillon ME & Martínez del Rio C. (2017 Isotopic niches support the resource breadth hypothesis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86: 405–413. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12629. PDF
• Sabat P, Narváez C, Peña-Villalobos I, Contreras C, Maldonado K, Sánchez-Hernández JC, Newsome SD, Nespolo R & Bozinovic F (2017) Coping with salt water habitats: Metabolic and oxidative responses to salt intake in the rufous-collared sparrow. Frontiers in Physiology Doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00654. PDF
• Vergara-Amado J, Silva AX, Manzi C, Nespolo RF & Cárdenas L (2017) Differential expression of stress candidate genes for thermal tolerance in the sea urchin Loxechinus albus. Journal of Thermal Biology 68: 104-109. Doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.009. PDF
• Zamorano J, Bozinovic F & Veloso C (2017) Colder is better: The differential effects of thermal acclimation on life history parameters in a parasitoid fly. Journal of Thermal Biology.68: 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.011. PDF
• Araujo MB, Ferri-Yañez F, Bozinovic F, Chown SL & Marquet PA (2016) Erratum to Araujo et al (2013). Ecology Letters19: 591–592. doi: 10.1111/ele.12597. PDF
• Barahona-Segovia RM, Grez AA & Bozinovic F (2016) Testing the hypothesis of greater eurythermality in invasive than in native ladybird species: from physiological performance to life-history strategies. Ecological Entomology41: 182–191. PDF
• Boher F, Trefault N, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2016) Ectotherms in Variable Thermal Landscapes: A Physiological Evaluation of the Invasive  Potential of Fruit Flies Species. Frontiers in Physiology7:302. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00302. PDF
• Bozinovic F, Medina NR, Alruiz JM, Cavieres G, Sabat P (2016) Thermal tolerance and survival responses to scenarios of experimental climatic change: changing thermal variability reduces the heat and cold tolerance in a fly. J Comp Physiol B.[Epub ahead of print] PDF
• Bozinovic F, Sabat P, Rezende EL & Canals M (2016) Temperature variability and thermal performance in ectotherms: acclimation, behaviour, and experimental considerations. Evolutionary Ecology Research17: 111–124. PDF
• Cavieres G, Bogdanovich JM & Bozinovic F (2016) Ontogenetic thermal tolerance and performance of ectotherms at variable temperatures. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.doi: 10.1111/jeb.12886 PDF
• Clavijo-Baquet S, Cumplido N & Bozinovic F (2016) Resting Metabolic Rate Is Positively Correlated with Parental Care Behavior in a Dwarf Hamster. J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol. 325 (4):274-82. PDF
• Cortes PA, Puschel H, Acuña P, Bartheld JL & Bozinovic F (2016) Thermal ecological physiology of native and invasive frog species: do invaders perform better? Conservation Physiology4(1): cow056. doi:10.1093/conphys/cow056. PDF
• Hadj-Moussa H,Moggridge JA, Luu BE, Quintero-Galvis JF, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF & Storey KB (2016).The hibernating South American marsupial, Dromiciops gliroides, displays torpor-sensitive microRNA expression patterns. Scientific Reports 6: 24627. doi: 10.1038/srep24627. PDF
• Labra FA, Bogdanovich JM & Bozinovic F. (2016) Nonlinear temperature effects on multifractal complexity of metabolic rate of ice. PeerJ 4:e2607 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2607. PDF
• Maldonado K, Sabat P, Piriz G, Bogdanovich JM, Nespolo RF & Bozinovic F (2016) Is maximum food intake in endotherms constrained by net or factorial aerobic scope? lessons from the leaf-eared mouse. Frontiers in Physiology 7:649. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00649. PDF
• Nespolo RF, Figueroa J & Solano-Iguaran JJ (2016) Studying the evolutionary significance of thermal adaptation in ectotherms: The diversification of amphibians’ energetics. Journal of Thermal Biology 68: 5-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.11.014. PDF
• Paleo-López R, Quintero-Galvis JF, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Sanchez-Salazar AM, Gaitan-Espitia JD & Nespolo RF (2016). A phylogenetic analysis of macroevolutionary patterns in fermentative yeasts. Ecology and Evolution6: 3851–3861. doi:10.1002/ece3.2097. PDF
• Peña-Villalobos I, Narváez C & Sabat P (2016). Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in a hypertonic environment in the invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. Biology Open 5: 955-961. doi: 10.1242/bio.016543. PDF
• Rivera DS, Lindsay C, Codocedo JF, Morel I, Pinto C, Cisternas P, Bozinovic F & Inestrosa NC (2016) Andrographolide recovers cognitive impairment in a natural model of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging:204-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.06.021.
• Rivera DS, Inestrosa NC, Bozinovic F (2016) On cognitive ecology and the environmental factors that promote Alzheimer disease: lessons from Octodon degus(Rodentia: Octodontidae). Biological Research. 49:10. PDF
• Tirado C, Cortes A, Carretero MA & Bozinovic F (2016) Does the presence of livestock alter the trophic behaviour of sympatric populations of wild camelids Vicugna vicugnaMolina 1782 and Lama guanicoe Müller 1976 (Artiodactyla: Camelidae)? Evidence from Central Andes. Gayana 80(1): 29-39. PDF
• Bartheld JL, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Artacho P, Salgado-Luarte C, Gianoli E & Nespolo R (2015) Energy expenditure and body size are targets of natural selection across a wide geographic range, in a terrestrial invertebrate. Functional Ecology29: 1463–1474. PDF
• Bozinovic F &  Portner H-O (2015) Physiological ecology meets climate change. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1403. PDF
• Bozinovic F &  DE Naya (2015) Linking physiology, climate and species distributional ranges. In: Martin, L.B., Ghalambor, C.K., and A. Woods (eds.). Chapter 17, pp: 277-290. Integrative Organismal Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 344 pp.
• Castellanos-Frías E, García-Perea R, Gisbert J, Bozinovic F & Virgós E (2015) Intraspecific variation in the energetics of the Cabrera vole. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol.190:32-8. PDF
• Cortés V, Amigo L, Zanlungo S, Galgani J, Robledo F, Arrese M, Bozinovic F & Nervi F (2015) Metabolic effects of cholecystectomy: gallbladder ablation increases basal metabolic rate through G-protein coupled bile acid receptor Gpbar1-dependent mechanisms in mice. PLoS One. 10(3):e0118478. PDF
• Inestrosa N, Ríos JA, Cisternas P, Tapia-Rojas C, Rivera DS, Braidy N, Zolezzi JM, Godoy JA, Carvajal FJ, Ardiles AO, Bozinovic F, Palacios AG & Sachdev PS (2015) Age Progression of Neuropathological Markers in the Brain of the Chilean Rodent Octodon degus, a Natural Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain Pathology.doi:10.1111/bpa.12226. PDF
• Narvaez C, Ramirez-Otarola N, Bozinovic F, Sanchez-Hernandez JC & Sabat P (2015) Comparative intestinal esterases amongst passerine species: Assessing vulnerability to toxic chemicals in a phylogenetically explicit context. 135:75-82. PDF
• Nespolo RF, Silva AX, Figueroa CC & Bacigalupe LD (2015) Anticipatory gene regulation driven by maternal effects in an insect–host system. Ecology and Evolution5: 5601–5608. PDF
• Newsome SD, Sabat P, Wolf N, Rader JA & Martinez del Rio C (2015) Multi-tissue δ²H analysis reveals altitudinal migration and tissue-specific discrimination patterns inCinclodes. Ecosphere6(11):213. PDF
• Rader JA, Dillon ME, Chesser RT, Sabat P & Martínez del Río C (2015) Morphological divergence in a continental adaptive radiation: South American ovenbirds of the genus Cinclodes. The Auk Ornithological Advances 132: 180–190. PDF
• Thienel M, Canals M, Bozinovic F & Veloso C (2015). The effects of temperature on the gas exchange cycle in Agathemera crassa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 183: 126–130. PDF
• Vázquez DP, Gianoli E, Morris WF & Bozinovic F (2015) Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc.doi:1111/brv.12216 PDF
• Ziegler L, Arim M & Bozinovic F (2015) Intraspecific scaling in frog calls: the interplay of temperature, body size and metabolic condition. [Epub ahead of print] PDF
• Bozinovic F, Ferri-Yánez F, Naya H, Araújo MB & Naya DE (2014) Thermal tolerance in rodents: species that evolved in cold climates exhibit a wider thermoneutral zone. Evolutionary Ecology Research16: 000-000. PDF
• Bozinovic F, Orellana MJM, Martel SI, Bogdanovich JM (2014) Testing the heat-invariant and cold-variability tolerance hypotheses across geographic gradients. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology.178:46-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.08.009. PDF
• Clavijo-Baquet S, Boher F, Ziegler L, Martel SI, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2014) Differential responses to thermal variation between fitness metrics.  Scientific Reports4: 5349. doi:10.1038/srep05349. PDF
• Estay SA, M Lima& F Bozinovic (2014) The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a  warming world. Oikos123:131-140. PDF
• González-Gómez PL, Suarez R, Madrid N, Vásquez RA & Bozinovic F (2014) Cognitive ecology in hummingbirds: the role of sexual dimorphism and its anatomical correlates on memory. PLoS One9(3): e90165. PDF
• Martel SI, SA Riquelme, AM Kalergis & F Bozinovic (2014) Dietary effect on immunological energetics in mice. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 184(7):937-944. PDF
• Nuñez-Villegas M, F Bozinovic & P Sabat (2014) Interplay between group size, huddling behavior and basal metabolism: an experimental approach in the social degus. Journal of Experimental Biology217:997-1002. PDF
• Peña-Villalobos I, M Nuñez-Villegas, F Bozinovic & P Sabat (2014) Metabolic enzymes in seasonally acclimatized and cold acclimated Rufous-collared sparrow inhabiting a Chilean Mediterranean environment. Current Zoology60:338-350. PDF
• Ríos JM, Barceló GF, Narvaez C, Maldonado K & P Sabat (2014) Feeding and digestive responses to fatty acid intake in two South  American passerines with different food habits. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, DOI 10.1007/s00360-014-0832-1. PDF
• Rojas JM, SB Castillo, G Folguera, S Abades & F Bozinovic (2014) Coping with daily thermal variability: behavioral performance of an ectotherm model in a warming world. PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106897. PDF
• Sánchez-Hernández JC, Narvaez C, Sabat P & S Martínez (2014) Integrated biomarker analysis of chlorpyrifos metabolism and toxicity in the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa. Science of the Total Environment490 (2014) 445–455. PDF

Team

–  Principal Investigator:

Francisco Bozinovic

– Associate Researchers: 

Pablo Sabat

Roberto Nespolo

– Postdoctoral associates: 

• Daniela Rivera: “Cognitive ecology”.
• Grisel Cavieres: “Thermal adaptation”.
• Natalia Ramírez: “Interaction between ecological immunology and nutritional ecology: dietary effects on immune response and oxidative state in Octodon degus”
• Pablo Cortes: “Functional genomics”.
• Priscilla Cortes: “Biochemical adaptation and climate change”.
• Sabrina Clavijo: “Evolutionary Biology”.

– Professionals and technicians:

José Miguel Bogdanovich

– Graduate students

Doctorate:

• Natalia Ricote

• Patricia Aldea

• Sebastian Martel

• Maria J Orellana

• Jaiber Solano

• Daniela Haro

• Isaac Peña

Research:

My research interests cover a broad range of topics, but I am mostly engaged in ecological physiology with strong ties into behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology and biogeography. In my opinion, an understanding of the processes underlying global ecological and evolutionary patterns can only be achieved by an integration of these disciplines. Hence, physiological mechanisms and tolerances, ecological and evolutionary constraints all contribute, depending on the taxon and scale of study, to the distribution, abundance and success of species and populations. I have long studied the impact of environmental changes on intergative physiology, with the primary goal of determining and assessing the proximate abiotic and biotic factors that might impact the Darwinian fitness. In my opinion, this endeavor is becoming increasingly important due to the accelerating rate of human-induced environmental perturbations.

Objectives:

Study organismic responses to the impact of global change

Integrate aspects of physiology biodiversity management

Use new tools (genomics , molecular biology , toxicology ) to understand and predict the impact of environmental change on biodiversity

Actual research lines:

We investigate (eg, metabolic, thermoregulation, digestive, osmotic, immunological, neuronal) physiological limitations on biodiversity, in order to improve the ability to predict responses of organisms to environmental perturbations, such as climate change, disease and habitat loss. In our opinion, by understanding the underlying mechanistic basis of the capabilities of the body to respond to biotic and abiotic environment, a solid foundation can be built to develop predictions about the likelihood of success or failure of individuals, populations and species (including invasive species and crops or human beings) to deal with the global changes that are coming. As integrative biologist, working with invertebrates (eg piriwinkles, mussels, insects and woodlices) and vertebrates (eg fish, amphibians, lizards, birds and mammals).

Projections and challenges:

Deliver explanations and transfer knowledge to society and proposals on the impacts and responses of organisms to environmental changes

Publicaciones: 

2014

1) Bozinovic F, Ferri-Yánez F, Naya H, Araújo MB & Naya DE (2014) Thermal tolerance in rodents: species that evolved in cold climates exhibit a wider thermoneutral zone. Evolutionary Ecology Research 16: 000-000. PDF: Bozinovic et al. 2014_Evol Ecol Res

2) Bozinovic F, Orellana MJM, Martel SI, Bogdanovich JM (2014) Testing the heat-invariant and cold-variability tolerance hypotheses across geographic gradients. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 178:46-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.08.009. PDF: Bozinovic et al. 2014_Comparative Biochem

3) Clavijo-Baquet S, Boher F, Ziegler L, Martel SI, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2014) Differential responses to thermal variation between fitness metrics.  Scientific Reports 4: 5349. doi:10.1038/srep05349. PDF: Clavijo-Baquet_ Sci Reports_2014

4) Estay SA, M Lima& F Bozinovic (2014) The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a  warming world. Oikos 123:131-140. PDF: Estay et al (2014) Oikos Thermal Variability_2014

5) González-Gómez PL, Suarez R, Madrid N, Vásquez RA & Bozinovic F (2014) Cognitive ecology in hummingbirds: the role of sexual dimorphism and its anatomical correlates on memory. PLoS One9(3): e90165. PDF: Gonzalez-Gomez et al. PLOS one 2014

6) Martel SI, SA Riquelme, AM Kalergis & F Bozinovic (2014) Dietary effect on immunological energetics in mice. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 184(7):937-944. PDF: Martel et al. 2014

7) Nuñez-Villegas M, F Bozinovic & P Sabat (2014) Interplay between group size, huddling behavior and basal metabolism: an experimental approach in the social degus. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:997-1002. PDF: Nuñez-Villegas et al. J Exp Biol-2014

8) Peña-Villalobos I, M Nuñez-Villegas, F Bozinovic & P Sabat (2014) Metabolic enzymes in seasonally acclimatized and cold acclimated Rufous-collared sparrow inhabiting a Chilean Mediterranean environment. Current Zoology 60:338-350. PDF: Peña-Villalobos_2014

9) Ríos JM, Barceló GF, Narvaez C, Maldonado K & P Sabat (2014) Feeding and digestive responses to fatty acid intake in two South  American passerines with different food habits. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, DOI 10.1007/s00360-014-0832-1. PDF: Rios et al (JCPB 2014)

10) Rojas JM, SB Castillo, G Folguera, S Abades & F Bozinovic (2014) Coping with daily thermal variability: behavioral performance of an ectotherm model in a warming world. PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106897. PDF: Rojas et al. 2014

11) Sánchez-Hernández JC, Narvaez C, Sabat P & S Martínez (2014) Integrated biomarker analysis of chlorpyrifos metabolism and toxicity in the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa. Science of the Total Environment 490 (2014) 445–455. PDF: Sanchez-Hernandez et al STOTEN 2014

2015

1) Bartheld JL, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Artacho P, Salgado-Luarte C, Gianoli E & Nespolo R (2015) Energy expenditure and body size are targets of natural selection across a wide geographic range, in a terrestrial invertebrate. Functional Ecology 29: 1463–1474. PDF

2) Bozinovic F &  Portner H-O (2015) Physiological ecology meets climate change. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1403. PDF: Bozinovic_et_al-2015-Ecology_and_Evolution

3) Bozinovic F &  DE Naya (2015) Linking physiology, climate and species distributional ranges. In: Martin, L.B., Ghalambor, C.K., and A. Woods (eds.). Chapter 17, pp: 277-290. Integrative Organismal Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 344 pp.

4) Castellanos-Frías E, García-Perea R, Gisbert J, Bozinovic F & Virgós E (2015) Intraspecific variation in the energetics of the Cabrera vole. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 190:32-8. PDF

5) Cortés V, Amigo L, Zanlungo S, Galgani J, Robledo F, Arrese M, Bozinovic F & Nervi F (2015) Metabolic effects of cholecystectomy: gallbladder ablation increases basal metabolic rate through G-protein coupled bile acid receptor Gpbar1-dependent mechanisms in mice. PLoS One. 10(3):e0118478. PDF

6) Inestrosa N, Ríos JA, Cisternas P, Tapia-Rojas C, Rivera DS, Braidy N, Zolezzi JM, Godoy JA, Carvajal FJ, Ardiles AO, Bozinovic F, Palacios AG & Sachdev PS (2015) Age Progression of Neuropathological Markers in the Brain of the Chilean Rodent Octodon degus, a Natural Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain Pathology. doi:10.1111/bpa.12226. PDF: Inestrosa et al. 2015 (1)

7) Narvaez C, Ramirez-Otarola N, Bozinovic F, Sanchez-Hernandez JC & Sabat P (2015) Comparative intestinal esterases amongst passerine species: Assessing vulnerability to toxic chemicals in a phylogenetically explicit context. Chemosphere. 135:75-82. PDF

8) Nespolo RF, Silva AX, Figueroa CC & Bacigalupe LD (2015) Anticipatory gene regulation driven by maternal effects in an insect–host system. Ecology and Evolution 5: 5601–5608. PDF

9) Newsome SD, Sabat P, Wolf N, Rader JA & Martinez del Rio C (2015) Multi-tissue δ²H analysis reveals altitudinal migration and tissue-specific discrimination patterns inCinclodes. Ecosphere 6(11):213. PDF

10) Rader JA, Dillon ME, Chesser RT, Sabat P & Martínez del Río C (2015) Morphological divergence in a continental adaptive radiation: South American ovenbirds of the genus Cinclodes. The Auk Ornithological Advances 132: 180–190. PDF: Rader et al. – 2014 – Morphological divergence in a continental adaptive…

11) Thienel M, Canals M, Bozinovic F & Veloso C (2015). The effects of temperature on the gas exchange cycle in Agathemera crassa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 183: 126–130. PDF: Thienel et al 2015 ciclos final

12) Vázquez DP, Gianoli E, Morris WF & Bozinovic F (2015) Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. doi:1111/brv.12216 PDF

13) Ziegler L, Arim M & Bozinovic F (2015) Intraspecific scaling in frog calls: the interplay of temperature, body size and metabolic condition. Oecologia. [Epub ahead of print] PDF

2016

1) Araujo MB, Ferri-Yañez F, Bozinovic F, Chown SL & Marquet PA (2016) Erratum to Araujo et al (2013). Ecology Letters 19: 591–592. doi: 10.1111/ele.12597. PDF

2) Barahona-Segovia RM, Grez AA & Bozinovic F (2016) Testing the hypothesis of greater eurythermality in invasive than in native ladybird species: from physiological performance to life-history strategies. Ecological Entomology 41: 182–191. PDF

3) Boher F, Trefault N, Estay SA & Bozinovic F (2016) Ectotherms in Variable Thermal Landscapes: A Physiological Evaluation of the Invasive  Potential of Fruit Flies Species. Frontiers in Physiology 7:302. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00302. PDF

4) Bozinovic F, Medina NR, Alruiz JM, Cavieres G, Sabat P (2016) Thermal tolerance and survival responses to scenarios of experimental climatic change: changing thermal variability reduces the heat and cold tolerance in a fly. J Comp Physiol B. [Epub ahead of print] PDF

5) Bozinovic F, Sabat P, Rezende EL & Canals M (2016) Temperature variability and thermal performance in ectotherms: acclimation, behaviour, and experimental considerations. Evolutionary Ecology Research 17: 111–124. PDF

6) Cavieres G, Bogdanovich JM & Bozinovic F (2016) Ontogenetic thermal tolerance and performance of ectotherms at variable temperatures. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12886 PDF

7) Clavijo-Baquet S, Cumplido N & Bozinovic F (2016) Resting Metabolic Rate Is Positively Correlated with Parental Care Behavior in a Dwarf Hamster. J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol. 325 (4):274-82. PDF

8) Cortes PA, Puschel H, Acuña P, Bartheld JL & Bozinovic F (2016) Thermal ecological physiology of native and invasive frog species: do invaders perform better? Conservation Physiology 4(1): cow056. doi:10.1093/conphys/cow056. PDF

9) Hadj-Moussa H, Moggridge JA, Luu BE, Quintero-Galvis JF, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF & Storey KB (2016).The hibernating South American marsupial, Dromiciops gliroides, displays torpor-sensitive microRNA expression patterns. Scientific Reports 6: 24627. doi: 10.1038/srep24627. PDF

10) Labra FA, Bogdanovich JM & Bozinovic F. (2016) Nonlinear temperature effects on multifractal complexity of metabolic rate of ice. PeerJ 4:e2607 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2607. PDF

11) Maldonado K, Sabat P, Piriz G, Bogdanovich JM, Nespolo RF & Bozinovic F (2016) Is maximum food intake in endotherms constrained by net or factorial aerobic scope? lessons from the leaf-eared mouse. Frontiers in Physiology 7:649. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00649. PDF

12) Nespolo RF, Figueroa J & Solano-Iguaran JJ (2016) Studying the evolutionary significance of thermal adaptation in ectotherms: The diversification of amphibians’ energetics. Journal of Thermal Biology 68: 5-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.11.014. PDF

13) Paleo-López R, Quintero-Galvis JF, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Sanchez-Salazar AM, Gaitan-Espitia JD & Nespolo RF (2016). A phylogenetic analysis of macroevolutionary patterns in fermentative yeasts. Ecology and Evolution 6: 3851–3861. doi:10.1002/ece3.2097. PDF

14) Peña-Villalobos I, Narváez C & Sabat P (2016). Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in a hypertonic environment in the invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. Biology Open 5: 955-961. doi: 10.1242/bio.016543. PDF

15) Rivera DS, Lindsay C, Codocedo JF, Morel I, Pinto C, Cisternas P, Bozinovic F & Inestrosa NC (2016) Andrographolide recovers cognitive impairment in a natural model of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging: 204-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.06.021.

16) Rivera DS, Inestrosa NC, Bozinovic F (2016) On cognitive ecology and the environmental factors that promote Alzheimer disease: lessons from Octodon degus (Rodentia: Octodontidae). Biological Research. 49:10. PDF

17) Tirado C, Cortes A, Carretero MA & Bozinovic F (2016) Does the presence of livestock alter the trophic behaviour of sympatric populations of wild camelids Vicugna vicugna Molina 1782 and Lama guanicoe Müller 1976 (Artiodactyla: Camelidae)? Evidence from Central Andes. Gayana 80(1): 29-39. PDF

2017

1) Franco M, Contreras C, Place NJ, Bozinovic F & Nespolo RF (2017) Leptin levels, seasonality and thermal acclimation in the Microbiotherid marsupial : Does photoperiod play a role?. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 203: 233-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.09.025. PDF

2) Maldonado K, Bozinovic F, Newsome SD & Sabat P (2017) Testing the niche variation hypothesis in a community of passerine birds. Ecology 98(4): 903–908. PDF

3) Negrete P, Sallaberry M, Barceló G, Maldonado K, Perona F, McGill R, Quillfeldt P & Sabat P (2017) Temporal variation in isotopic composition of Pygoscelis penguins at Ardley Island, Antarctic: Are foraging habits impacted by environmental change? Polar Biology 40:903–916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2017-8. PDF

4) Nespolo RF, Solano-Iguaran JJ & Bozinovic F. (2017). Phylogenetic Analysis Supports the Aerobic-Capacity Model for the Evolution of Endothermy. American Naturalist 189: 13–27. DOI: 10.1086/689598. PDF

5) Rader JA, Newsome SD, Sabat P, Chesser RT, Dillon ME & Martínez del Rio C. (2017), Isotopic niches support the resource breadth hypothesis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86: 405–413. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12629. PDF

6) Zamorano J, Bozinovic F & Veloso C (2017) Colder is better: The differential effects of thermal acclimation on life history parameters in a parasitoid fly. Journal of Thermal Biology. 68: 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.011. PDF

DESCRIPCIÓN:

Los microorganismos son un componente biológico esencial en el funcionamiento de nuestro planeta. Aunque todavía hay un gran nivel de desconocimiento sobre tipos, características y procesos microbianos, lo que hoy si se sabe es que hay un tremendo potencial en los microorganismos conducente a mejorar la productividad, innovar y proteger el ambiente. Es en la aplicación efectiva de este potencial, entre otras iniciativas, donde el “Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability” (CAPES) focaliza tanto la generación y transferencia de conocimiento original, como la formación de capital humano avanzado, con miras a permitir el desarrollo sustentable en Chile. Ejemplos de esto son las actividades de investigación y transferencia tecnológica que desarrollamos en áreas como el diseño de agroquímicos o agentes biocidas basados en microorganismos benéficos; la aplicación de estrategias de bio y fitorremediación para la limpieza de ambientes contaminados con derivados del petróleo, residuos mineros u otros contaminantes; o el monitoreo y control de la actividad de microorganismos que producen efectos indeseables como el drenaje ácido de minas, o la biocorrosión; además de estudiar la producción microbiana de materiales como celulosa y calcita. Para ello se utilizan aproximaciones tradicionales y modernas como la Biología Sintética, la (meta)Transcriptómica, la Minería de Datos y la Bioinformática, entre otras.

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OBJETIVOS:

• Uso de enfoques de última generación para el estudio de procesos microbianos de relevancia ambiental (secuenciación masiva; (meta)transcriptómica y (meta)genómica; herramientas computacionales de alta capacidad para minería de datos, modelamiento y predicción)
• Contribución a la investigación fundamental en aspectos que, inexplicablemente, han recibido menos atención (mecanismos de promoción microbiana del crecimiento de plantas en condiciones normales y estresantes; respuestas moleculares y fisiológicas de plantas a microorganismos; mecanismos de control del crecimiento de biopelículas; bases para evaluar efectividad de estrategias de bio(fito)remediación, geomicrobiología de drenajes ácidos mineros, entre otros).
• Integración de investigadores en Ingeniería y Computación para facilitar la resolución de problemas reales en donde estén involucrados procesos microbianos, a través de la adquisición, preprocesamiento, modelamiento y análisis de los datos generados en el laboratorio.
• Difusión de la relevancia de las funciones microbianas en múltiples aspectos tecnológicos y ambientales, y los aspectos fundamentales y aplicados de las investigaciones realizadas a distintos actores de la sociedad.
• Establecimiento de interacciones sinérgicas con las otras líneas CAPES que abordan problemas relevantes en Ecofisiología, Ecotoxicología, Manejo Ambiental, Ecología de Poblaciones, entre otras, que tengan un componente microbiano que considerar en su resolución o estudio.

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PROYECCIONES:

• Contribuir a la resolución efectiva de problemas ambientales en Chile.
• Desarrollar productos agroquímicos que reduzcan el impacto ambiental de la agricultura, que permitan el uso de suelos no cultivables y/o que mejoren la productividad de la industria.
• Generar conocimiento científico de alto impacto en las áreas fundamentales de Microbiología Ambiental y Biología Vegetal, y con aplicaciones concretas en actividades relevantes a nivel nacional, como la agricultura, minería, tratamiento de residuos, etc.
• Incorporar modelamiento matemático y simulaciones computacionales para estudiar problemas ambientales como también ver el efecto que podrían tener las soluciones propuestas.
• Formar nuevos científicos con capacidad para aplicar conocimientos básicos de la Microbiología, Biología Vegetal y Biotecnología Ambiental, entre otras, a la solución de problemas reales.
• Establecer vínculos genuinos, entre distintos actores (Empresas, Gobierno, ONGs, entre otros), que permitan traducir eficientemente la investigación desarrollada en nuestros laboratorios en estrategias de desarrollo ambientalmente sustentables.

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COLABORACIONES INTERNACIONALES:

• Dietmar H. Pieper. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, HZI, Braunschweig, Alemania
• Ramon Rosselló-Móra. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA, CSIC. Mallorca, España
• José Eduardo González-Pastor. Centro de Astrobiología. INTA. Madrid, España
• Fabricio Cassán. Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y de la Interacción Planta-Microorganismo. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Córdoba. Argentina.

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EQUIPO: 

Investigador Principal:

Bernardo González

Investigadores Asociados:

María José Poupin, Thomas Ledger, Gonzalo Ruz, Cedric Little, Francisca Blanco, Diego Pérez-Pantoja, Juan Pablo Pavissich y Felipe Aquea.

Postdoctorados:

Gastón López, Gustavo Rodríguez

Profesionales y Técnicos:

Luis Cid

Estudiantes de Postgrado:

Daniela Ruiz, Javier Cillero, Francisco Altimiras, Salvador Ramírez-Flandes y Sebastián Osores

Estudiantes de Pregrado:

María Ignacia Dellafiori, Arlan Tirado, Natalia Arancibia, Martín Céspedes.

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PUBLICACIONES:

• Di Genova A, Ruz GA, Sagot MF & Maass A (2018) Fast-SG: An alignment-free algorithm for hybrid assembly. GigaScience. Doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giy048. PDF
• Duran C, Arce-Johnson P & Aquea F (2018) Methylboronic acid fertilization alleviates boron deficiency symptoms in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta Doi: 10.1007/s00425-018-2903-0. PDF
• Gacitúa MA, Munoz E & González B (2018) Bioelectrochemical sulphate reduction on batch reactors: Effect of inoculum-type and applied potential on sulphate consumption and pH. BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY 119: 26-32. Doi: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.08.006. PDF
• Henríquez PA & Ruz GA (2018) A non-iterative method for pruning hidden neurons in neural networks with random weights. Applied Soft Computing. Doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2018.03.013. PDF
• Mora-Ruiz MR, Cifuentes A, Font-Verdera F, Pérez-Fernández C, Farias ME, González B, Orfila A & Rosselló-Móra R (2018) Biogeographical patterns of bacterial and archaeal communities from distant hypersaline environments. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 41: 139-150. Doi: 10.1016/j.syapm.2017.10.006. PDF
• Quintero-Galvis JF, Paleo-López R, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Poupin MJ, Ledger T, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Anto A, Travisano M & Nespolo RF (2018) Exploring the evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under bacteria environment: An experimental phylogenetics approach. Ecology and Evolution 8: 4619-4630. Doi: 10.1002/ece3.3979. PDF
• Zúñiga A, De la Fuente F, Federici F, Lionne C, Bonnet J, de Lorenzo V & González B (2018) An engineered device for indoleacetic acid production under quorum sensing signals enables Cupriavidus pinatubonensis JMP134 to stimulate plant growth. ACS Synthetic Biology. Doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00002. PDF
• Aquea F, Timmermann T & Herrera-Vásquez A (2017) Chemical inhibition of the histone acetyltransferase activity in Arabidopsis thaliana.Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 483(1): 664-668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.12.086. PDF
• Donoso R, Leiva-Novoa P, Zúñiga A, Timmermann T, Recabarren-Gajardo G & González B (2017) Biochemical and genetic bases of indole-3-acetic acid (auxin phytohormone) degradation by the plantgrowth-promoting rhizobacterium Paraburkholderia phytofirmansAppl Environ Microbiol 83:e01991-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01991-16. PDF
• Filker S, Forster D, Weinisch L, Mora-Ruiz M, González B, Farías ME, Rosselló-Móra R & Stoeck T. (2017) Transition boundaries for protistan species turnover in hypersaline waters of different biogeographic regions. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13805. PDF
• Henríquez PA & Ruz GA (2017) Extreme learning machine with a deterministic assignment of hidden weights in two parallel layers. Neurocomputing226: 109-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2016.11.040. PDF
• Menares F,  Carrasco MA,  González B, Fuentes I & Casanova M (2017) Phytostabilization ability of Baccharis linearis and its relation to properties of a tailings-derived technosol. Water Air Soil Pollut(2017) 228: 182. DOI 10.1007/s11270-017-3348-y. PDF.
• Osores SJA, Lagos NA, San Martín V, Manríquez PA, Vargas CA, Torres R, Navarro JM, Poupin MJ, Saldías GS & Lardies MA (2017) Plasticity and inter-population variability in physiological and life-history traits of the mussel : A reciprocal transplant experiment, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 490: 1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.02.005. PDF
• Rodríguez-Valdecantos G, Manzano M, Sánchez R, Urbina F, Hengst MB, Lardies MA, Ruz GA & González B (2017) Early successional patterns of bacterial communities in soil microcosms reveal changes in bacterial community composition and network architecture, depending on the successional condition. Applied Soil Ecology 120: 44-54. Doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.07.015. PDF
• Timmermann T, Armijo G, Donoso R, Seguel A, Holuigue L & González B (2017) Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJN Protects Arabidopsis thaliana Against a Virulent Strain of Pseudomonas syringae Through the Activation of Induced Resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 30: 215-230. Doi: 10.1094/MPMI-09-16-0192-R. PDF
• Zúñiga A, Donoso RA, Ruiz D, Ruz GA & González B (2017) Quorum-Sensing Systems in the Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJN Exhibit Cross-Regulation and Are Involved in Biofilm Formation. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 30: 557-565. Doi: 10.1094/MPMI-01-17-0008-R. PDF
• Aguilera V, Vargas CA, Lardies MA & Poupin MJ (2016) Adaptive variability to low-pH river discharges in Acartia tonsaand stress responses to high PCO₂ Marine Ecology37: 215–226. PDF
• Ledger T, Rojas S, Timmermann T, Pinedo I, Poupin MJ, Garrido T, Richter P, Tamayo J & Donoso R (2016) Volatile-Mediated Effects Predominate in Paraburkholderia phytofirmansGrowth Promotion and Salt Stress Tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana.  Microbiol.7:1838. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01838. PDF.
• Loyola R, Herrera D, Mas A, Chern Jan Wong D, Höll J, Cavallini E, Amato A, Azuma A, Ziegler T, Aquea F, Castellarin SD, Bogs J, Tornielli GB, Peña-Neira A, Czemmel S, Alcalde JA, Matus JT & Arce-Johnson P (2016) The photomorphogenic factors UV-B receptor 1, elongated hypocotyl 5, and hy5 homologue are part of the UV-B signalling pathway in grapevine and mediate flavonol accumulation in response to the environment. Journal of Experimental Botany67(18): 5429–5445. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw307. PDF
• Poupin MJ, Greve M, Carmona V & Pinedo I (2016) A Complex Molecular Interplay of Auxin and Ethylene Signaling Pathways Is Involved in Arabidopsis Growth Promotion by Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN. Front Plant Sci.12(7):492. PDF
• Tapia JE, González B, Goulitquer S, Potin P & Correa JA (2016) Microbiota Influences Morphology and Reproduction of the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp. Front Microbiol24 (7): 197. PDF
• Goles E, Ruz GA (2015) Dynamics of neural networks over undirected graphs Neural Networks63: 156-16.  PDF
• Mora-Ruiz M, Font-Verdera F, Díaz-Gil C, Urdiain M, Rodríguez-Valdecantos G, González B, Orfila A & Rosselló-Móra R (2015) Moderate halophilic bacteria colonizing the phylloplane of halophytes of the subfamily Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae). Systematic and Applied Microbiology38 (6):406-416. PDF
• Moraga F & Aquea F (2015) Composition of the SAGA complex in plants and its role in controlling gene expression in response to abiotic stresses. Front Plant Sci.6:865. PDF
• Pérez-Pantoja D, Leiva-Novoa P, Donoso RA, Little C, Godoy M, Pieper DH & González B (2015) Hierarchy of carbon source utilization in soil bacteria: Hegemonic preference for benzoate in complex aromatic compound mixtures degraded by Cupriavidus pinatubonensis Appl Environ Microbiol. PDF
• Pinedo I, Ledger T, Greve M & Poupin MJ (2015) Burkholderia phytofirmansPsJN induces long-term metabolic and transcriptional changes involved in Arabidopsis thaliana salt tolerance. Front Plant Sci. 23(6):466. PDF
• Viver T, Cifuentes A, Díaz S, Rodríguez-Valdecantos G, González B, Antón J, Rosselló-Móra R (2015) Diversity of extremely halophilic cultivable prokaryotes in Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific solar salterns: Evidence that unexplored sites constitute sources of cultivable novelty. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 38(4):266-275. PDF
• Gacitúa MA, González B, Majone M & Aulenta F (2014) Boosting the electrocatalytic activity of Desulfovibrio paquesiibiocathodes with magnetite nanoparticles. Int J Hydrog Energ. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.07.057. PDF
• Lardies MA, Arias MB, Poupin M & Bacigalupe L (2014). Heritability of hsp70 expression in the beetle Tenebrio molitor: Ontogenetic and environmental effects. Journal of Insect Physiology67:70-75 . PDF
• Lardies MA, Arias MB, Poupin MJ, Manríquez P, Torres R, Vargas C, Navarro J & Lagos N. (2014).Differential response to ocean acidification in physiological traits of Concholepas concholepas. Journal of Sea Research90:127-134. PDF
• Ruz GA, Timmermann T, Barrera J, Goles E (2014) Neutral space analysis for a Boolean network model of the fission yeast cell cycle network. Biological Research47(1):64. doi:10.1186/0717-6287-47-64. PDF

1. Team

   – Principal Investigator:

   Bernardo González Ojeda

   – Associate researchers:

   María Josefina Poupin Swinburn

   Thomas Ledger Hermosilla

   Gonzalo Ruz Heredia

   Cedric Little Orellana

   Juan Rivadeneira Hurtado

   – Postdoctoral associates:

• Ana Zúñiga: “Synthetic bacterial consortiums : a strategy of synthetic biology to optimize the plant -bacteria association by proper selection and regulation of gene expression”.
• Gastón Lopez: «Plant Microbiology»
• Raúl Donoso: “Role of sigma factors extracitoplasmática function of growth promoting bacteria Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN in the rhizosphere and endophytic colonization of plants”.
• Verónica Morgante: «Microbian indexes for soil health»
  

  – Professionals and technicians:

  Daniela Ruiz Salazar

  Rossana Carrasco Tobar

  Macarena Greve Muñoz

  Sandy Rojas Arce

  – Graduate students

Doctorate:

• Alex Di Genova

• Daniela Ruiz

• Francisco Altimiras

• Gustavo Rodríguez

• Katherine Rojas

• Salvador Ramírez-Flandes

• Sebastián Osores

• Tania Timmermann

Master:

• Alexa Siebert

• Claudia Clavero

• Cristian Pugh

• Ignacio Gómez

– International collaborators:

– Dietmar H. Pieper. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, HZI, Braunschweig, Alemania

– Ramon Rosselló-Móra. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA, CSIC. Mallorca, España

– José Eduardo González-Pastor. Centro de Astrobiología. INTA. Madrid, España

Research:

Microorganisms are an essential biological component in the functioning of our planet. Although there is still a great deal of ignorance about types, characteristics and microbial processes, which if known today is that there is tremendous potential in microorganisms conducive to improving productivity, innovation and protect the environment. It is in the effective implementation of this potential, among other initiatives, where the «Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability» (CAPES) focuses on both the generation and transfer of original knowledge, the formation of advanced human capital in order to allow development sustainable in Chile. Examples of this are the research and develop technology transfer in areas such as design of agrochemicals or biocides based on beneficial microorganisms; the application of bio strategies and phytoremediation to clean petroleum-contaminated environments, mining waste or other pollutants; or monitoring and control of the activity of microorganisms that produce undesirable effects such as acid mine drainage, biocorrosion or biofouling; in addition to studying the microbial production of materials such as cellulose and calcite. For this traditional and modern approaches such as synthetic biology, the (meta) transcriptomics, data mining and bioinformatics, among others are used.

Objectives:

1) Using last generation approaches to the study of microbial processes of environmental relevance (massive sequencing, (meta) transcriptomics and (meta) genomics, computational tools of high capacity data mining, modeling and prediction).

2) Contribute to fundamental research in areas that have inexplicably received less attention (microbial mechanisms promoting plant growth under normal and stressful conditions; molecular and physiological responses of plants to microorganisms, mechanisms of biofilm growth monitoring; bases that evaluate effectiveness of strategies in bio (phyto) remediation geomicrobiology acid mine drainage, etc.).

3) Integrate Engineering and Computer Science researchers to facilitate the resolution of real problems where they are involved microbial processes through the acquisition, preprocessing, modeling and analysis of the data generated in the laboratory.

4) Dissemination of the importance of microbial functions in multiple technological and environmental aspects, and fundamental and applied research conducted at different actors in society issues.

5) Establishment of synergistic interactions with other CAPES lines that address relevant problems in ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Management, Ecology of Populations, among others, which have a microbial component to consider in its resolution or study.

Actual research lines:

1) Study the microbial molecular mechanisms involved inplant growth promotion.

2) Characterize the molecular and physiological responses involved in plant responses to microorganisms in normal growth conditions or stress.

3) Study the factors involved in chemical signaling between plants and microorganisms.

4) Evaluate bio strategies involved in (phyto) remediation of petroleum contaminated sites, chloroaromatic pesticides or metals.

5) Evaluate microbial component in the potential for acid mine drainage.

6) Develop algorithms to construct gene regulatory networks using gene expression data.

7) Study robustness of biological networks through neutral space.

8) Study microbial strategies involved in the production of cellulose and precipitation of calcite, regulation and metabolic requirements.

Projections and challenges:

1) Design of genetic circuits using synthetic biology tools for the development of growth-promoting agents, screening tools, and / or academic teaching of molecular genetic resources.

2) Contribute to the effective resolution of environmental problems in Chile.

3) Develop agricultural chemicals that reduce the environmental impact of agriculture, which does not allow the use of arable land and / or improve the productivity of the industry.

4) Generate high impact scientific knowledge in the fundamental areas of Environmental Microbiology and Plant Biology, and with specific applications in relevant activities at the national level, such as agriculture, mining, waste treatment, etc.

5) Incorporate mathematical modeling and computer simulations to study environmental problems as well as see the effect they could have proposed solutions.

6) Train new scientists with ability to apply basic knowledge of Microbiology, Plant Biology and Environmental Biotechnology, among others, to solve real problems.

7) Establish genuine links between different actors (companies, government, NGOs, etc.) that allow efficiently translate research carried out in our laboratories in environmentally sustainable development strategies.

Publications:

2014 

1) Gacitúa MA, González B, Majone M & Aulenta F (2014) Boosting the electrocatalytic activity of Desulfovibrio paquesii biocathodes with magnetite nanoparticles. Int J Hydrog Energ. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.07.057. PDF: Gazitua et al. 2014

2) Lardies MA, Arias MB, Poupin M & Bacigalupe L (2014). Heritability of hsp70 expression in the beetle Tenebrio molitor: Ontogenetic and environmental effects. Journal of Insect Physiology 67:70-75 . PDF: Lardies et al. 2014

3) Lardies MA, Arias MB, Poupin MJ, Manríquez P, Torres R, Vargas C, Navarro J & Lagos N. (2014).Differential response to ocean acidification in physiological traits of Concholepas concholepas. Journal of Sea Research 90:127-134. PDF: Lardies et al. 2014b

4) Ruz GA, Timmermann T, Barrera J, Goles E (2014) Neutral space analysis for a Boolean network model of the fission yeast cell cycle network. Biological Research 47(1):64. doi:10.1186/0717-6287-47-64. PDF: Ruz et al. 2014

2015

1) Goles E, Ruz GA (2015) Dynamics of neural networks over undirected graphs Neural Networks 63: 156-16.  PDF: Goles& Ruz_2015

2) Mora-Ruiz M, Font-Verdera F, Díaz-Gil C, Urdiain M, Rodríguez-Valdecantos G, González B, Orfila A & Rosselló-Móra R (2015) Moderate halophilic bacteria colonizing the phylloplane of halophytes of the subfamily Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae). Systematic and Applied Microbiology 38 (6):406-416. PDF

3) Moraga F & Aquea F (2015) Composition of the SAGA complex in plants and its role in controlling gene expression in response to abiotic stresses. Front Plant Sci. 6:865. PDF

4) Pérez-Pantoja D, Leiva-Novoa P, Donoso RA, Little C, Godoy M, Pieper DH & González B (2015) Hierarchy of carbon source utilization in soil bacteria: Hegemonic preference for benzoate in complex aromatic compound mixtures degraded by Cupriavidus pinatubonensis Appl Environ Microbiol.  PDF: Pérez-Pantoja et al. 2015

5) Pinedo I, Ledger T, Greve M & Poupin MJ (2015) Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN induces long-term metabolic and transcriptional changes involved in Arabidopsis thaliana salt tolerance. Front Plant Sci. 23(6):466. PDF

6) Viver T, Cifuentes A, Díaz S, Rodríguez-Valdecantos G, González B, Antón J, Rosselló-Móra R (2015) Diversity of extremely halophilic cultivable prokaryotes in Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific solar salterns: Evidence that unexplored sites constitute sources of cultivable novelty. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 38(4):266-275. PDF: Viver et al. 2015

2016

1) Aguilera V, Vargas CA, Lardies MA & Poupin MJ (2016) Adaptive variability to low-pH river discharges in Acartia tonsa and stress responses to high PCO₂ conditions. Marine Ecology 37: 215–226. PDF

2) Ledger T, Rojas S, Timmermann T, Pinedo I, Poupin MJ, Garrido T, Richter P, Tamayo J & Donoso R (2016) Volatile-Mediated Effects Predominate in Paraburkholderia phytofirmans Growth Promotion and Salt Stress Tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Microbiol. 7:1838. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01838. PDF.

3) Loyola R, Herrera D, Mas A, Chern Jan Wong D, Höll J, Cavallini E, Amato A, Azuma A, Ziegler T, Aquea F, Castellarin SD, Bogs J, Tornielli GB, Peña-Neira A, Czemmel S, Alcalde JA, Matus JT & Arce-Johnson P (2016) The photomorphogenic factors UV-B receptor 1, elongated hypocotyl 5, and hy5 homologue are part of the UV-B signalling pathway in grapevine and mediate flavonol accumulation in response to the environment. Journal of Experimental Botany 67(18): 5429–5445. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw307. PDF

4) Poupin MJ, Greve M, Carmona V & Pinedo I (2016) A Complex Molecular Interplay of Auxin and Ethylene Signaling Pathways Is Involved in Arabidopsis Growth Promotion by Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN. Front Plant Sci. 12(7):492. PDF

5) Tapia JE, González B, Goulitquer S, Potin P & Correa JA (2016) Microbiota Influences Morphology and Reproduction of the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp. Front Microbiol 24 (7): 197. PDF

2017

1) Aquea F, Timmermann T & Herrera-Vásquez A (2017) Chemical inhibition of the histone acetyltransferase activity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 483(1): 664-668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.12.086. PDF

2) Donoso R, Leiva-Novoa P, Zúñiga A, Timmermann T, Recabarren-Gajardo G & González B (2017) Biochemical and genetic bases of indole-3-acetic acid (auxin phytohormone) degradation by the plantgrowth-promoting rhizobacterium Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJN. Appl Environ Microbiol 83:e01991-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01991-16. PDF

3) Filker S, Forster D, Weinisch L, Mora-Ruiz M, González B, Farías ME, Rosselló-Móra R & Stoeck T. (2017 in press) Transition boundaries for protistan species turnover in hypersaline waters of different biogeographic regions. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13805. PDF

4) Henríquez PA & Ruz GA (2017) Extreme learning machine with a deterministic assignment of hidden weights in two parallel layers. Neurocomputing 226: 109-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2016.11.040. PDF

5) Menares F,  Carrasco MA,  González B, Fuentes I & Casanova M (2017) Phytostabilization ability of Baccharis linearis and its relation to properties of a tailings-derived technosol. Water Air Soil Pollut (2017) 228: 182. DOI 10.1007/s11270-017-3348-y. PDF.

6) Osores SJA, Lagos NA, San Martín V, Manríquez PA, Vargas CA, Torres R, Navarro JM, Poupin MJ, Saldías GS & Lardies MA (2017) Plasticity and inter-population variability in physiological and life-history traits of the mussel : A reciprocal transplant experiment, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 490: 1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.02.005. PDF