A5079524166- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Water resources management and optimization
- Rural development and sustainability
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2012-2024
National University of Tucumán
2018-2024
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2018-2024
Freie Universität Berlin
2020-2024
Instituto de Ecología
2020-2022
Carbon emissions from land-use changes in tropical dry forest systems are poorly understood, although they likely globally significant. The South American Chaco has recently emerged as a hot spot of agricultural expansion and intensification, cattle ranching soybean cultivation expand into forests, replaces grazing lands. Still, our knowledge the rates spatial patterns these how affected carbon remains partial. We used Landsat satellite image archive to reconstruct change over past 30 years...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that socioeconomic shocks strongly affect wildlife populations, but quantitative is sparse. The collapse of socialism in Russia 1991 caused a major shock, including sharp increase poverty. We analyzed population trends 8 large mammals from 1981 to 2010 (i.e., before and after the collapse). hypothesized would first cause declines, primarily due overexploitation, then increases adaptation new environments following collapse. long-term Database Russian Federal...
Ecoregions are a suitable organization level for the discussion and planning of conservation initiatives at regional level, due to their spatial continuity ecological biophysical homogeneity. The complex interactions between characteristics ecoregions, local global socioeconomic changes land-use change determine that threats opportunities within among ecoregions unequally distributed. In this article, we performed an updated diagnosis main issues associated with in terrestrial Argentina....
Significance Millions of people globally rely on forest-based resources for their livelihoods, particularly in the tropics and subtropics. Deforestation is often hypothesized to diminish forest-dependent communities’ resource base push them toward more-marginal environments, but such ecological marginalization has rarely been quantified. We developed an approach identify homesteads track over 30 y across entire South American Gran Chaco (1.1 million km 2 ). This highlighted that are...
Abstract Understanding how biodiversity responds to intensifying agriculture is critical mitigating the trade‐offs between them. These are particularly strong in tropical and subtropical deforestation frontiers, yet it remains unclear changing landscape context such frontiers alters agriculture–biodiversity trade–offs. We focus on Argentinean Chaco, a global hotspot, explore shapes trade‐off curves agricultural intensity avian biodiversity. use space‐for‐time approach integrate large field...
Torrella, S. A., M. Piquer-Rodríguez, C. Levers, R. Ginzburg, G. Gavier-Pizarro, and T. Kuemmerle. 2018. Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco face of deforestation. Ecology Society 23(4):37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10546-230437
Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly world's rapidly disappearing tropical subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these are often unclear, as well how or different policies alter option space of available pathways. Using a spatial optimization framework based on linear programming, we develop landscape-scale possibility frontier describing agricultural profit, biodiversity, carbon stock for Argentinean Dry Chaco,...
Abstract Commodity agriculture continues to spread into tropical dry forests globally, eroding their social-ecological integrity. Understanding where deforestation frontiers expand, and which impacts this process triggers, is thus important for sustainability planning. We reconstructed past land-system change (1985–2015) simulated alternative futures (2015–2045) the Gran Chaco, a 1.1 million km 2 global hotspot with high biological cultural diversity. co-developed nine plausible future...
Zarbá, L., M. Piquer-Rodríguez, S. Boillat, C. Levers, I. Gasparri, T. Aide, N. L. Álvarez-Berríos, O. Anderson, E. Araoz, Arima, Batistella, Calderón-Loor, Echeverría, Gonzalez-Roglich, G. Jobbágy, S.-L. Mathez-Stiefel, Ramirez-Reyes, A. Pacheco, Vallejos, K. R. Young, and Grau. 2022. Mapping characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America. Ecology Society 27(2):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13066-270227