South America has been an epicenter of land cover and land use change (LCLUC) for over
five decades due to rapid agricultural expansion along forest frontiers, the establishment of …

Two decades of global annual fractional vegetation cover products have been derived using
daily surface reflectance and land surface temperature data from the Moderate Resolution …

We review the current state of research on vegetation heterogeneity in the Monte Desert at
scales varying from landscape to intra-patch. Different factors are related to vegetation …

Cacti are conspicuous elements of the Western hemisphere. They have long attracted
attention due to their peculiar biology, and have maintained close relationships with local …

Besides precipitation inputs, evapotranspiration of irrigated and natural oases, ie riparian
and phreatophytic ecosystems, of rain-shadow deserts is strongly influenced by lateral water …

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is an exotic agent of disturbance that arrived in the Ñacuñán
Reserve of Argentina in the 1980s. When foraging, the wild boar overturns extensive areas …

Early studies of trophic structure from North American deserts set up a paradigm with
granivory as a general and integral phenomenon driving the assembly and structure of small …

Prosopis flexuosa DC. (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae) SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
vol.35 número1 Micrografía foliar de arbustos y pequeños árboles medicinales de la …

It is becoming more apparent that species richness alone many not be sufficient to fully
understand ecosystem resilience but that functional diversity (diversity of species having …

Insects are involved in the biogeochemical cycles of multiple elements and influence soil
fertility. In particular, soil insects and the functions that they support can affect the response …