Alicia y el bosque de algas

AUTORES: Christophe Destombes, Luz Valeria Oppliger, Myriam Valero y Valerie Valero.

DESCRIPCIÓN: Libro álbum, que busca sensibilizar a jóvenes lectores sobre la importancia de los bosques submarinos de algas en el mundo y la necesidad de conservarlos. Pensado para niños a partir de 10 años. El primer tiraje fue de 3000 ejemplares para venta en Europa (Francia, Bélgica, Suiza), por la editorial Locus solus. Durante el 5to año de CAPES el libro comenzará a distribuirse en Chile a través de la editorial Orjikh.

LINK: Adquisición (en francés) https://www.locus- solus.fr/product-page/alice-et-la-for%C3%AAt-d-algues

LÍNEA 0: Invasiones biológicas en el cono sur sudamericano: Causas globales e impactos locales

DESCRIPCIÓN:

Las invasiones biológicas ocurren cuando los organismos son transportados (deliberada o accidentalmente) hacia áreas nuevas y a menudo distantes, donde pueden proliferar y expandirse o extinguirse. En esta línea de investigación estamos interesados en aquellas invasiones facilitadas por los seres humanos, pues constituyen uno de los aspectos más relevantes y conspicuos del cambio global planetario. La magnitud geográfica, la frecuencia y el número de especies involucradas en invasiones biológicas, han crecido enormemente como consecuencia directa de la expansión del transporte y el comercio, particularmente en los últimos 100 años. Entre los factores estudiados están: (a) El papel de los humanos en promover y facilitar intencional y no intencionalmente las invasiones biológicas, los patrones emergentes en términos históricos y geográficos, especialmente considerando que en la actualidad pocos hábitats en la Tierra permanecen libres de especies introducidas. (b) El proceso de dispersión inicial y cómo este evento es propiciado por humanos y qué rutas, causas y vectores se encuentran implicados en esta etapa. (c) El proceso de naturalización o establecimiento poblacional de las especies exóticas arribadas a determinada área, así como qué factores bióticos (interacciones poblacionales) y abióticos (clima, geografía) lo determinan. (d) Los aspectos relacionados con la dispersión secundaria, es decir, la expansión desarrollada por especies exóticas en el área invadida. (e) Los distintos tipos de impactos infligidos por especies exóticas, ya sea en el campo socio-económico cultural, ambiental y de salud humana. (f) Finalmente, los aspectos relativos al impacto ecológico de las invasiones, bajo la óptica de los distintos niveles de organización, que van desde el individual-poblacional al comunitario y ecosistémico.


Objetivos:

Determinar los impactos ecológicos, sociales, culturales y económicos de la introducción de especies exóticas, con particular énfasis en Chile y Argentina. Dentro de los impactos ecológicos, determinar la existencia de fenómenos de facilitación, competencia aparente, mutualismo aparente, colapso por invasión, dispersión de propágulos, parásitos y enfermedades.


Proyecciones y desafíos:

Dado que la mayor parte de las especies exóticas en el cono sur sudamericano son de origen Eurasiático (región Paleártica) o Norteamericano (región Neártica) queremos convertir nuestra investigación en un referente mundial a través de aportar al conocimiento de cómo distintos ecosistemas de la región Neotropical absorben a los invasores paleárticos y neárticos y a su vez son modificados por ellos.


Colaboraciones internacionales:

Christopher Anderson, Yasmin Bobadilla, Fernanda Cuevas, Laura Fasola, Ricardo Ojeda (todos de CRICYT Argentina); Ariel Farías (UR, Uruguay).


EQUIPO:

Francisca Boher (UC), Sergio Castro (USACH), Gabriela Flores (UC), César González (UBO), Daniella Mella (UC), Luz Valeria Oppliger (UC), Paula Zucolillo (UC).


PUBLICACIONES:

 

  • 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. PDF
  • von Dassow P, Díaz-Rosas F, Bendif EM, Gaitán-Espitia JD, Mella-Flores D, Rokitta S, John U & Torres R (2018) Over-calcified forms of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in high-CO2 waters are not preadapted to ocean acidification. Biogeoscience 15: 1515-1534. Doi: 10.5194/bg-15-1515-2018.
  • Muñoz-Pedreros A, Yañez J, Norambuena HV & Zuniga A (2018) Diet, dietary selectivity and density of South American grey fox, Lycalopex griseus, in Central Chile. Integrative Zoology 13: 46-57. Doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12260.
  • Fariña JM, He Q, Silliman BR & Bertness MD (2018) Biogeography of salt marsh plant zonation on the Pacific coast of South America. Journal of Biogeography 45: 238-247. Doi: 10.1111/jbi.13109.
  • Root-Bernstein M & Jaksic FM (2017) Making research relevant? Ecological methods and the ecosystem services framework. 5: 664-678. Doi: 10.1002/2016EF000501
  • Canavero Andrés, Arim M, Pérez F, Jaksic F & Marquet P (2017) A metabolic view of amphibian local community structure: the role of activation energy. Ecography 388-400. Doi: 10.1111/ecog.02336
  • Sol D, Bartomeus I, González-Lagos C, Pavoine S & Haddad N (2017) Urbanisation and the loss of phylogenetic diversity in birds. Ecology Letters 20: 721-729. Doi: 10.1111/ele.12769.
  • Root-Bernstein M, Valenzuela R, Huerta M, Armesto J & Jaksic F (2017) Acacia caven nurses endemic sclerophyllous trees along a successional pathway from silvopastoral savanna to forest. Ecosphere Doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1667.
  • Zúñiga AH, Jiménez JE & Ramírez P (2017) Activity patterns in sympatric carnivores in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, southern-central Chile. Mammalia 81: 445-453. Doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2015-0090
  • Root-Bernstein M, Guerrero-Gatica M, Pía L, Bonacic C, Svenning JC & Jaksic F (2017) Rewilding-inspired transhumance for the restoration of semiarid silvopastoral systems in Chile. Regional Environmental Change 17: 1381-1396. Doi: 10.1007/s10113-016-0981-8.
  • Castillo S (2016) Introducción intencional de fauna exótica y futuros invasores: ¿Seguimos tropezando con la misma piedra una y otra vez?. Bosque 37: 237-241. Doi: 10.4067/S0717-92002016000200002.
  • Luarte T, Bonta CC, Silva-Rodriguez EA, Quijón PA, Miranda C, Farias AA & Duarte C (2016) Light pollution reduces activity, food consumption and growth rates in a sandy beach invertebrate. Environmental Pollution 218: 1147-1153. Doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.08.068.
  • Delebecq G, Davoult D, Janquin MA, Oppliger LV, Menu D, Dauvin JC & Gevaert F (2016) Photosynthetic response to light and temperature in Laminaria digitata gametophytes from two french populations. European Journal of Phycology 51: 71-82. Doi: 10.1080/09670262.2015.1104556.
  • 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 Doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00302.
  • Jiménez MA, Gaxiola A, Armesto JJ, González-Browne C, Meserve PL, Kelt DA, Gutiérrez JR & Jaksic FM (2016). Bet-hedging strategies of native and exotic annuals promote coexistence in semiarid Chile. Journal of Arid Environments 126: 62-67. Doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.10.014
  • Friedlander AM, Ballesteros E, Caselle JE, Gaymer CF, Palma AT, Petit I, Varas E, Wilson AM & Sala E (2016). Marine Biodiversity in Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas Islands, Chile: Global Endemism Hotspots. PLOS ONE 11: e0145059. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145059
  • Torreblanca ML, Pérez-Santos I, San Martín B, Varas E, Zilleruelo R, Riquelme-Bugueo R & Palma AT (2016) Seasonal dynamics of zooplankton in a northern Chile bay exposed to upwelling conditions. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 51: 273-291. Doi: 4067/S0718-19572016000200006.
  • Root-Bernstein M & Jaksic F (2015). Ecosystem process interactions between central Chilean habitats. Global Ecology and Conservation 3: 776-788. Doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2015.04.007
  • Skewes O & Jaksic FM (2015). History of the introduction and present distribution of the European wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Chile. Mastozoología Neotropical 22(1): 113-124

 

Video

Video presentación PUC CAPES – conoce más sobre nosotros.

Stand con título “Resistencia nativa” recibió a miles de personas en la Quinta Normal

Durante los días 7-11 de octubre, el Centro de Ecología Aplicada junto al Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad organizaron un stand sobre especies nativas y exóticas presentes en Chile, en el marco de la XX Semana Nacional de la Ciencia y Tecnología que organiza el Programa Explora de Conicyt.

El stand, consistente en un espacio de 4 X 5 m, incluyó diversas actividades, entre ellas: clases de origami de especies nativas y exóticas, rincón de lectura de libros de divulgación de flora y fauna chilena, especímenes reales de especies nativas e introducidas, tour ornitológico por el parque de la Quinta Normal, y varios estudiantes de pre y postgrado voluntarios dispuestos a responder las cientos de preguntas que surgían de la multitud.

La feria recibió a alrededor de 23.000 asistentes de diversas edades durante los cuatro días. Numerosos fueron los positivos comentarios recibidos por los monitores de nuestro stand.

Ver video de la feria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PJeo99omk&list=UUSH9e4-QLa0aEm1604viGQg

Científicos CAPES participan en iniciativa Explora 1000 científicos 1000 aulas

Durante el mes de octubre, en el marco de la Semana Nacional de la Ciencia y Tecnología, científicos del Centro de Ecología Aplicada y Sustentabilidad participaron con charlas para niños y niñas de la región metropolitana.

El profesor Bernardo González, junto a los postdoctorantes Francisca Boehr, María José Poupin y Thomas Ledger, se inscribieron como voluntarios para divulgar conceptos científicos diversos a niños en edad preescolar, de enseñanza básica y educación media.

Más de doscientos alumnos participaron activamente en las charlas sobre Invasiones biológicas en Chile, Microorganismos y Protección Ambiental, Los Microorganismos no son tan malos, y Microingenieros: soluciones bacterianas para un mundo sustentable.

Los alumnos beneficiados corresponden a escolares de las comunas de La Reina, Peñalolén, La Florida y Ñuñoa.

Iniciativa 1000 científicos 1000 aulas

La iniciativa “1000 CIENTÍFICOS 1000 AULAS”, una acción del Programa EXPLORA CONICYT, se inserta en la XX Semana Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, que este año se realizó entre el 6 y el 12 de octubre.

Todas las escuelas, liceos y colegios de Chile, pudieron seleccionar las charlas que científicos/as, tecnólogos/as, académicos/as y estudiantes de postgrado ponen a disposición en la plataforma 1000cientificos.explora.cl

Las charlas tienen por objetivo motivar a niños, niñas y jóvenes de todo el país a interesarse por la ciencia y la tecnología.

Seminario Internacional

Gestión integrada de residuos orgánicos y mineros. Un enfoque multipropósito para la rehabilitación ambiental y la reducción de gases con efecto invernadero

 

Organizadores:

Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal UC

Escuela de Ingeniería UC

Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES) UC
 
Auspiciadores:

Vicerrectoría de Investigación UC
 
Patrocinadores:

Sociedad Nacional de Minería (SONAMI)

Fecha:

Martes 4 de Noviembre 2014, entre las 8:30 y las 13:30h
 
Lugar:

Auditórium Principal Centro de Innovación UC Anacleto Angelini,

Campus San Joaquín UC, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul.
 
Objetivos:

– Enfatizar los beneficios multipropósito de realizar gestión integrada de residuos mineros masivos y residuos orgánicos de distintas fuentes: rehabilitación ambiental, valorización de residuos orgánicos y aportes al cambio climático a través del secuestro de carbono, entre otros.

– Contextualizar este tipo de iniciativas en el marco normativo y regulatorio nacional e internacional, tanto para los residuos sólidos como para el cambio climático y el cierre de faenas mineras.
 
Audiencia:

Dirigido a profesionales de los servicios públicos, empresas mineras, asociaciones gremiales mineras, empresas consultoras, académicos, estudiantes de pre- y post-grado y público general.

Valor de la Inscripción:

$ 100.000 (Público general) y $ 25.000 (Estudiantes)

Idioma: inglés, con disponibilidad de traducción simultánea

Línea 5: Gestión sostenible de los recursos naturales e investigación en políticas públicas.

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.


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.


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.


COLABORACIONES INTERNACIONALES:

Joshua Cinner, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia


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


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 ChileAquatic 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

Population theory applied to predict the dynamics of socio-ecological systems

 

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

Línea 4: Dinámicas de población, cambio global y sustentabilidad socio-ecológica.

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.


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.


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.


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.


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-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

Cesar González
Eugenia Gayo
Ariel Farías

– 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

Vanessa Weinberger

– 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