Context Land-use change is the main driver of habitat loss and fragmentation worldwide.
The rate of dry forest loss in the South American Chaco is among the highest in the world …

Existen numerosos mapas de la vegetación espontánea de la Argentina. Sin embargo, no
contamos aún con uno de todo el país con una resolución que permita distinguir unidades …

Logging, grazing, wood extraction, and anthropogenic fires are pervasive throughout the
subtropical dry vegetation of South America leading to changes in woodlands structure and …

Vector-borne diseases account for nearly 20% of all globally recognised infectious diseases.
Within the spectrum of flea-borne pathogens, Bartonella and Rickettsia bacteria are …

Abstract Subtropical Argentinean Chaco forests have been severely deforested and
fragmented due to agriculture during the last six decades. The most affected forests are …

The forest in the Central Argentine Chaco has been dramatically fragmented and persists
only as isolated patches in an agricultural matrix. In this study, we evaluated the effects of …

Background Wildfires represent an important element in the bio-geophysical cycles of
various ecosystems across the globe and are particularly related to land transformation in …

Northwestern Argentina (NOA) is one of the least studied areas in Argentina with respect to
ectoparasites of the order Siphonaptera; previous investigations, until this study, were …

Aim Factors affecting bromeliad distribution depend on the life forms of the studied species;
some could grow as terrestrial, saxicolous, or epiphytic depending on the type of habitat. We …

We investigated the influence of Quaternary climate fluctuations on the current distribution of
three species of Leguminosae (Fabaceae) occurring in the Chaco. Potential distribution …