Question What are the composition and spatial patterns of native woody plant communities
in the southern Great Chaco and Espinal? Location Córdoba Province, central Argentina, an …

Aim To determine how the distribution and cover of different vegetation types are affected by
physical factors and livestock in a mountain range with a long evolutionary history of …

Resultados: En el mapa final identificamos: bosques nativos, bosques exóticos, matorrales
nativos, pajonales, céspedes, pastizales con roca y/o suelo desnudo y roquedales. Estas …

Wildfires are a primary disturbance in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina, with approximately
2 152 000 ha burned between 1993 and 2012. However, little is known about the spatial …

Altitudinal gradients are expected to heavily influence the general performance of mountain
tree species. For this study we evaluated vitality, radial growth and reproductive efficiency in …

To help determine the major factors associated with alien plant in a newly invaded mountain
range; we analyzed the distribution patterns of woody alien species along the altitudinal …

 Abstract We present a monograph of the high Andean tree genus Polylepis (Rosaceae),
based on a species concept considering morphological, climatic and biogeographic …

El género Polylepis es endémico de las montañas de Sudamérica. Sus especies
frecuentemente dominan la canopia de bosques y arbustales cuya conservación y …

Mountain forests and their soils provide ecological services such as maintenance of
biodiversity, provision of clean water, carbon capture and forage for livestock rearing, which …

Soil erosion, as a result of livestock grazing, has been widely reported for arid and semiarid
ecosystems, but information is lacking in more mesic ecosystems where erosion is generally …