A5032117961- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Berry genetics and cultivation research
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Plant and soil sciences
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
Universidad de La Frontera
2016-2025
Center of Applied Ecology & Sustainability
2019-2023
Austral University of Chile
2021
University of California, Santa Barbara
2009-2013
Abstract The global trade of species promotes diverse human activities but also facilitates the introduction potentially invasive into new environments. As ignore national boundaries, unilateral decisions concerning set stage for transnational invasion with significant conservation, economic and political consequences. need a coordinated approach to importation policies is demonstrated by two bumblebee Chile crop pollination, despite Argentina banning commercial alien bumblebees based on...
Over the last quarter century, increasing honey bee colony losses motivated standardized large-scale surveys of managed bees (Apis mellifera), particularly in Europe and United States. Here we present first survey stingless across Latin America. Overall, 1736 beekeepers 165 meliponiculturists participated 2-year (2016-2017 2017-2018). On average, 30.4% colonies 39.6% were lost per year region. Summer higher than winter (30.9% 22.2%, respectively) but not (18.8% 20.6%, respectively). Colony...
Given the unpredictability, increasing frequency and severity of climatic events, it is crucial to determine adaptation limits agroecological strategies adopted by farmers in a range environments. In times drought many smallholders’ cope with stress using series crop diversification soil management strategies. Intercropping agroforestry systems complemented mulching copious organic matter applications can increase water storage, enhancing crops’ use efficiency. Although an overwhelming...
The range of benefits provided by urban greenspaces is reasonably well understood and a broad consensus has been reached that they provide habitats along with social ecosystem services, such as restoration, health food. Domestic gardens, which are primary node contact between city residents nature, typically represent significant portion the greenspaces, so gardeners who manage them play an important role in maintaining within city. In this way, voluntarily public service should be...
Abstract Invasive species are one of the main biodiversity loss drivers. Some can establish and thrive in novel habitats, impacting local communities, as is case managed pollinators. In this regard, an invasive species' expansion process over time critical for its control management. A good example European bumblebee Bombus terrestris , which has rapidly invaded southern part South America after being repeatedly introduced Chile crop pollination since 1997. We assessed temporal dynamics B....
In the last decades, pollinators have drastically declined as a consequence of anthropogenic activities that local and global impacts. The food industry has been expanding intensive agriculture crops, many them dependent on animal pollination, but simultaneously reducing native pollinator habitats. Chile is good example this situation. becoming an agro-alimentary powerhouse in Latin America, where expansion performed at expense natural lands, posing major threat to biodiversity. Here, we...
Global social-ecological crises call for the identification and promotion of resilient agrifood systems. Agroecology can help addressing these challenges by fostering high levels diversity climate resilience. The application agroecological principles (i.e. processes translated into practices with positive effects on conservation, stability resilience agriculture), increases systems' response capacity ability to adapt crises. has its roots in indigenous agriculture but filters human-nature...
La crisis mundial de polinización no solo es producida por la pérdida polinizadores, sino también su homogeneización, ambos procesos causados el ser humano. En este documento analizamos los impactos ecológicos que justifican prohibición nuevos ingresos del abejorro comercial Bombus terrestris a Chile. Esta especie altamente invasiva y ha sido prohibida en otros paÃses, pero Chile se permite ingreso desde 1997. Miles colonias reinas fertilizadas ingresan al paÃs cada año expanden...
Characterizing insect communities in pollinator-dependent crops helps determine the potential pollinator effectiveness and their effects on crop yield. Few studies have examined services to South America. Furthermore, optimal sampling methods for these habitat received little attention. Pan traps are one of simplest most widely used assess diversity. We compared different pan trap arrangements describe two commercial (blueberry canola) Southern Chile. assessed how position (border or center)...
Abstract Pollination services are affected by landscape context, farming management and pollinator community structure, all of which impact flower visitation rates, pollen deposition final production. We studied these processes in Argentina for highbush blueberry crops, depend on pollinators to produce marketable yields. how land cover honeybee stocking influence the abundance wild managed using structural equation modelling disentangle cascading effects through contribute fruit number,...
Understanding of people’s landscape preferences is important for decision-making about land planning, particularly in the disturbance patterns that usually occur rural-urban gradients. However, use different types images concerning same may influence social and thus perceptions management planning decisions. We evaluated four landscapes southern Chile. specifically: (1) compared related to living in, visiting, scenic beauty, well-being, risks, level disturbance; (2) type scene (i.e.,...
Unifying Concepts.Cien.Inv.Agr.36(1): 5-26.This work is the product of a long process that tried to approximate principia involved in sustainable agriculture an attempt analyze it.We believe these are crucial for systematic, rigorous, and consistent development agriculture.The unifying concepts sustainability classifi ed into seven fundamental principles: (i) there hierarchy decision-making with respect human actions on landscape environment; (ii) impact land should be analyzed from...
In Chile, as in many other parts of the world, agroecology was first developed from studies on traditional agricultural systems. late1970s and early 1980s, when a large portion Chilean population under high poverty, notions for agroecological thinking arised. NGOs were entities to do applied country. Of particular relevance is Center Education Technology which pioneering NGO that implemented demonstrative farms making huge impact development Chile. It also influenced academics 1990s...
Aquest treball pretén fomentar l'enteniment de la interrelació entre riscos ambientals generats pel canvi climàtic i capacitat d'utilitzar unitats sistemes agrícoles (com a socioecològics) per resistir aquestes pertorbacions persistir en el temps. Es van avaluar 177 famílies que practicaven agricultura camperola regió La Araucanía (Xile) estaven diferenciades, d'acord amb seu origen ètnic, maputxes, xilens descendents colons europeus. identificar es variables associades als nivells...
<title>Abstract</title> Over the last quarter century, increasing bee colony losses motivated standardized large-scale surveys of managed honey bees (<italic>Apis mellifera</italic>), particularly in Europe and United States. Here we present first survey stingless across Latin America. Overall, 1736 beekeepers 165 meliponiculturists participated two-year (2016–2017 2017–2018). On average, 30.4% colonies 39.6% were lost per year region. Summer higher than winter (30.9% 22.2%, respectively)...