Review
This review covers long-term ecological studies in Central America, South America, and Antarctica that include at least 10 years of data on both terrestrial and marine mammals as well as birds. Specifically, w...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:7
Published on: 6 September 2017
Research
The seasonal variations in macroinvertebrate communities in tropical, temperate and subarctic regions have been observed and well documented to date, but similar studies conducted in subtropical rivers at the ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:6
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research
Mitochondrial markers are widely used as a first approach in determining evolutionary relationships among vertebrate taxa at different hierarchical scales. Cytochrome b and cytochrome oxidase I are among the most...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:5
Published on: 20 June 2017
Research
Although the mesquite (mesquital or mezquital in Spanish) is one of the representative ecosystems of the landscapes in the north of Mexico, it is also one of the least studied. This study evaluated the structu...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:4
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research
Understanding the role of agroecosystems as habitat for wildlife is crucial for long-term conservation planning, as different crop stratification and landscape elements can influence bird communities, which ar...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:3
Published on: 31 May 2017
Short report
Monitos del monte (Dromiciops gliroides) are old-growth forest specialists and, thus, believed to be very sensitive to habitat transformation, although some recent studies show some level of plasticity of their h...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:2
Published on: 21 March 2017
Short report
The long-eared owl (Asio otus) has a Holarctic distribution, including much of North America. This nocturnal species is considered to be extremely secretive, and poorly known in the Great Plains of the United Sta...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:1
Published on: 28 January 2017
Research
Mosses dominate much of the vegetation in the Antarctic, but the effect of climatic change on moss growth and sexual reproduction has scarcely been studied. In Antarctica, mosses infrequently produce sporophyt...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:13
Published on: 13 September 2016
Research
Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant species richness have frequently been related to different climate variables such as precipitation, temperature and evapotranspiration. However, studies assessing ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:12
Published on: 1 September 2016
Research
In one-piece nesting termites, which nest and forage in a single piece of wood, soldier production increases during the swarming period, i.e. when the risk of invasion of their substrate and hence of their col...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:11
Published on: 1 September 2016
Research
Many barrel or columnar cacti, including some in the Atacama Desert, produce their reproductive tissue at or near the terminal apices of solitary or minimally branched stems that lean toward the equator, repor...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:10
Published on: 22 July 2016
Review
The Mountains of the Western Ghats are the second most important shelter in the world for threatened species. The current paper is an attempt to study the conservation assessment of rare, endangered and threat...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:9
Published on: 6 May 2016
Research
During the last decades the frequency and global distribution of toxic cyanobacteria blooms has increased globally, which has been attributed to the eutrophication and climate change. In Chile there have been ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:8
Published on: 29 April 2016
Research
Maritime Antarctica is severely affected by climate change and accelerating glacier retreat forming temporal gradients of soil development. Successional patterns of soil development and plant succession in the...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:6
Published on: 6 April 2016
Research
Early life stages of macroalgae, especially from polar species, can be highly vulnerable to physical stressors, leading to important consequences for the fate of the whole population in scenarios of changing e...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:5
Published on: 4 April 2016
Research
Photosynthetic characteristics and the effect of UV radiation and elevated temperature measured were studied in Chlorella sp. isolated from a snow microalgal community at King George Island, Maritime Antarctica t...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:7
Published on: 31 March 2016
Short report
This is a study of current pollen rain on soil disturbed by human use on the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands. A sector strongly affected by human activity, an area between the Edua...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:4
Published on: 14 March 2016
Research
Antarctic marine organisms have evolved a variety of physiological, life-history and molecular adaptations that allow them to cope with the extreme conditions in one of the coldest and most temperature-stable ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:2
Published on: 10 March 2016
Research
Prevailing environmental conditions can modulate the structuring role of biotic interactions. In intertidal habitats, less stressful environmental conditions and/or higher grazer densities may allow grazing ef...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:3
Published on: 10 March 2016
Research
The vegetation structure and dynamics in subtropical forest fragments is influenced by the bamboo density. After the reproductive events followed by the death of the bamboos, is critical to understanding commu...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:1
Published on: 8 March 2016
Research
Signs left by some mammals such as tracks, trails, burrows, scratches, feces, hair, and others can be an important tool for species identification. This study was conducted in the Itirapina Ecological Station,...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:19
Published on: 10 December 2015
Review
Prosopis tamarugo Phil. is a legume tree native to the Atacama Desert, Chile. Tamarugo has physiological characteristics that are highly adapted to extreme life conditions in the Pampa de...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:18
Published on: 2 December 2015
Research
Dromiciops gliroides is a small nocturnal marsupial found in the temperate forests of Southern Chile and Argentina. It is the only living member of the order Microbiotheria. Here, we d...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:17
Published on: 15 October 2015
Research
Pervasive introductions of non-native taxa are behind processes of homogenization of various types affecting the global flora and fauna. Chile’s freshwater ecosystems encompass a diverse and highly endemic fis...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:16
Published on: 17 September 2015
Research
Morphological variability can lead to serious taxonomic problems in species with wide distribution ranges. Although morphological variability is partly due to ontogenetic programming, abiotic variables can als...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:14
Published on: 18 August 2015
