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 …

The use of time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), obtained from
satellite sensors has become frequent in studies for land degradation assessment and …

Mountain ecosystems are sensitive to climate fluctuations; however, the scarcity of
instrumental data makes necessary the use of complementary information to study the effect …

In a recently published paper, Oliva et al. concluded that domestic grazing pressure across
Patagonian rangelands approached carrying capacity due to decades of stock adjustment …

Carrying capacity is the maximum animal density an area can sustain without deterioration
of its resources. Overgrazing has degraded Patagonia, but sheep stocks decreased and …

One of the main challenges in land degradation assessment is that a rigorous and
systematic approach to addressing its complex dynamics is still missing. The development …

At present, most governments, particularly in low and middle-income countries, are not
effectively using ecosystem services (ES) indicators for conservation monitoring, which is in …

The Argentinian Patagonia is a vast area (790,000-km2) of southern South America
between 36° and 55° S. Almost 90% of the area is arid, semiarid or dry-subhumid (drylands) …

The Puna region, located in NW Argentina, is a dry highland with many endemic species
and significant traditional cultural heritage. The Puna was a pilot region for the Land …

MARAS (Monitoring of Arid and Semiarid Regions) consists of 379 ground monitors in
Patagonia, a 624.500 km 2 semiarid area of southern Argentina and Chile. The objective of …