Protected areas in Chile: history, current status, and challenges.

A Pauchard, P Villarroel - 2002‏ - cabidigitallibrary.org
Natural reserves or protected areas are a keystone of global strategies for biological
conservation. With over 18% of its land under protection, Chile faces challenges similar to …

Towards the creation of an integrated system of protected areas in Chile: achievements and challenges

FA Squeo, RA Estévez, A Stoll, CF Gaymer… - Plant Ecology & …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background: Chile is committed to extending its National System of Protected Areas (NSPA),
focusing on eco-regions whose ecosystems are currently under-represented in the NSPA. A …

Diversidad y valor de importancia para la conservación de la vegetación natural: Parque Nacional Lihué Calel (Argentina)

AM Campo, VS Duval - 2014‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
La vegetación es un recurso natural clave para el equilibrio del ecosistema por lo que es
necesario disponer de información cuantitativa sobre sus características y distribución. El …

The Chilean coastal range: a vanishing center of biodiversity and endemism in South American temperate rainforests

C Smith-Ramírez - Biodiversity & Conservation, 2004‏ - Springer
Temperate forests of southern South America are globally important because of their high
level of endemism. I argue here that within southern South America, rainforests of the …

Representativeness of terrestrial ecosystems in Chile's protected area system

P Pliscoff, T Fuentes-Castillo - Environmental Conservation, 2011‏ - cambridge.org
Because protected areas are a major means of conservation, the extent to which
ecosystems are represented under different protection regimes needs to be ascertained. A …

Inequality in access to cultural ecosystem services from protected areas in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot

MJ Martinez-Harms, BA Bryan, SA Wood… - Science of the total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Experiences with nature through visits to protected areas provide important cultural
ecosystem services that have the potential to strengthen pro-environmental attitudes and …

Representation of ecosystem services by terrestrial protected areas: Chile as a case study

AP Durán, S Casalegno, PA Marquet, KJ Gaston - PLoS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Protected areas are increasingly considered to play a key role in the global maintenance of
ecosystem processes and the ecosystem services they provide. It is thus vital to assess the …

Conservation network design for endemic cacti under taxonomic uncertainty

M Duarte, PC Guerrero, G Carvallo… - Biological Conservation, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The utility of spatial conservation prioritization (SCP), could be limited by the biases
produced by taxonomic uncertainty and by the lack of an accepted taxonomic checklist for a …

Ecosystem value in the Western Patagonia protected areas

MJ Martínez-Harms, R Gajardo - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2008‏ - Elsevier
To ensure the long-term conservation of the natural ecosystems heterogeneity in Western
Patagonia, effective techniques are required for evaluating, planning and redesigning the …

Consideraciones sobre la sistemática de las familias y los géneros de plantas vasculares endémicos de Chile

R Urbina-Casanova, P Saldivia, RA Scherson - Gayana. Botánica, 2015‏ - SciELO Chile
El endemismo es uno de los principales aspectos que trata la biogeografía histórica y es
uno de los criterios más importantes para establecer las prioridades de conservación de las …