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  1. Endophytic fungi are diverse and ubiquitous in nature, yet studies simultaneously comparing endophyte communities in above- and below-ground plant tissues are relatively scarce. The main goal of our study was ...

    Authors: M. J. Guevara-Araya, C. Vilo, A. Urzúa and M. González-Teuber

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:3

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  2. Galaxias maculatus is an abundant freshwater fish species in Chilean continental waters where it plays important ecological functions, yet few parasitological records of this species exist in Chile and all of the...

    Authors: Mario George-Nascimento, Ruby López-Rodríguez and Konrad Górski

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:2

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  3. Caenolestids are a group of poorly known South American marsupials with a restricted distribution in Páramo and Subpáramo environments of the Andes from Colombia and western Venezuela to Bolivia (represented by t...

    Authors: Baltazar González, Federico Brook and Gabriel M. Martin

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:1

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  4. Behavior and activity patterns largely determine animal’s fitness and their ecological roles. Those patterns depend on many factors, being body mass, sex and age the most relevant in mammals. Particularly, tho...

    Authors: Lida M. Franco, Francisco E. Fontúrbel, Giovany Guevara and Mauricio Soto-Gamboa

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:8

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  5. Density in inter and intraspecific plant-plant interactions affects the action modes of allelopathy (autotoxicity, negative and positive allelopathy). Some seeds exude compounds that inhibit the germination of...

    Authors: Zoila Mercedes Aguilar-Franco, Alejandro Flores-Palacios, Alejandro Flores-Morales, Irene Perea-Arango, José de Jesús Arellano-García and Susana Valencia-Díaz

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:7

    Content type: Research

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  6. Human activities are permanently threatening wildlife. Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centers (WRRC) have served for the rescue, rehabilitation and reinsertion of affected and recovered animals.

    Authors: Francisca Romero, Angelo Espinoza, Nicole Sallaberry-Pincheira and Constanza Napolitano

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:6

    Content type: Research

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  7. The original article [1] contained a minor typo in the spelling of ‘Lyngbye’ in the title; this has now been corrected.

    Authors: Jacqueline Salvo Pereira and Alejandra Oyanedel Pérez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:5

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:4

  8. Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M. Schmidt is a freshwater invasive benthic diatom native to oligotrophic systems of the Northern Hemisphere. Since 2010, freshwater systems of south-austral Chile, have experienc...

    Authors: Jacqueline Salvo Pereira and Alejandra Oyanedel Pérez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:4

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:5

  9. Although intermittent rivers account for over half of the global fluvial network and could increase in length and quantity in Mediterranean climates (in response to climate changes), there is little documentat...

    Authors: Kate Brintrup, Cecilia Amigo, José Fernández, Amparo Hernández, Felipe Pérez, Jorge Félez-Bernal, Andrea Butturini, Katia Saez-Carrillo, Mariela A. Yevenes and Ricardo Figueroa

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:3

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  10. There is limited knowledge about the breeding strategies of birds inhabiting in South American temperate forests. This is particularly true for open-cup forest passerines breeding at high latitudes (> 42°). To...

    Authors: Rocío Fernanda Jara, Ramiro Daniel Crego, Francisco Javier Arellano, Tomás Alberto Altamirano, José Tomás Ibarra, Ricardo Rozzi and Jaime Enrique Jiménez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:2

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  11. Fragmentation (establishment of barriers e.g., hydropower dams, reservoirs for irrigation) is considered one of the greatest threats to conservation of river systems worldwide. In this paper we determine the f...

    Authors: Gustavo Díaz, Pedro Arriagada, Konrad Górski, Oscar Link, Bruno Karelovic, Jorge Gonzalez and Evelyn Habit

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:1

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  12. The invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M. Schmidt has received considerable attention in recent years due to its rapid geographic expansion and massive proliferation, which have altered habitat avai...

    Authors: Fabián Figueroa, Pablo Pedreros, Fabiola Cruces, Roberto Abdala-Díaz, Víctor Hernández, José Becerra and Roberto Urrutia

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:10

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  13. Eulychnia acida is an endemic Chilean cactus species whose fruits show several traits that, taken as a whole, are compatible with a seed dispersal syndrome by large herbivore vertebrates. Since only a few large n...

    Authors: Rocío A. Cares, Consuelo Sáez-Cordovez, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, Rodrigo Medel and Carezza Botto-Mahan

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:9

    Content type: Short report

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  14. Among Neotropical fishes, the family Characidae is highly diverse and speciose and its taxonomy is not completely resolved. In Chile, the family is represented by five species, all within the genus Cheirodon, of ...

    Authors: Miguel Ángel Soto, Jonathan Pena Castro, Laura Ines Walker, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Mateus Henrique Santos, Mara Cristina de Almeida, Orlando Moreira-Filho and Roberto Ferreira Artoni

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:8

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  15. Having the right identification is essential in the field of entomology. The scanning electron microscopy allows rapid and accurate identification of different species of flies since a better visualization of...

    Authors: Rebecca Leal Caetano, César Carriço, Doris Mendonça de Abreu Freitas and Zeneida Teixeira Pinto

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:7

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  16. The analysis of the negative effects of environmental metal pollution is complex and difficult to assess, because the great number of variables and levels of biological organization involved. Therefore, an int...

    Authors: Laura T. Cervantes-Ramírez, Mónica Ramírez-López, Patricia Mussali-Galante, Ma. Laura Ortiz-Hernández, Enrique Sánchez-Salinas and Efraín Tovar-Sánchez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:6

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  17. “Garra de Leon” (Leontochir ovallei) is an ephemeral endangered Alstroemeriaceae species endemic to Chile. Despite many efforts to improve the conservation of this species, the stimulation of dormant seeds and th...

    Authors: Marta Vargas, Elda Jofré, Carlos Navarrete, Jaime Bravo, Fabiola Jamett, Claudio Inostroza-Blancheteau and Cristian Ibáñez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:5

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  18. The composition, structure and biological diversity of two regenerated areas after livestock activities in a Tamaulipan thornscrub vegetation from Northeast Mexico were evaluated. The regeneration of each area...

    Authors: Miguel A. Pequeño-Ledezma, Eduardo Alanís-Rodríguez, Víctor M. Molina-Guerra, Arturo Mora-Olivo, Alejandro G. Alcalá-Rojas, José Guadalupe Martínez-Ávalos and Fortunato Garza-Ocañas

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:4

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  19. Current knowledge of urban bird ecology and biodiversity relies on evidence from cities of the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern Hemisphere is underrepresented. Santiago is a large city from South Americ...

    Authors: Pablo Gutiérrez-Tapia, M. Ignacio Azócar and Sergio A. Castro

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:3

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  20. Taxon- and/or ecosystem-based definitions of management units typically focus on conspicuous species and physical habitat limits; these definitions implicitly assume that these classification systems are relat...

    Authors: Ana Inés Borthagaray, Alvaro Soutullo, Alvar Carranza and Matías Arim

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:2

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  21. Human population growth since the mid-1900s has been accompanied by an unsustainable use of natural resources and a corresponding impact on terrestrial and marine biota. In response, most states have establish...

    Authors: Ignacio J. Petit, Ana N. Campoy, Maria-Jose Hevia, Carlos F. Gaymer and Francisco A. Squeo

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2018 91:1

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  22. 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...

    Authors: Megan Taig-Johnston, Madeline K. Strom, Kendall Calhoun, Kendra Nowak, Luis A. Ebensperger and Loren Hayes

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:7

    Content type: Review

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  23. 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 ...

    Authors: Shiyun Chi, Sixin Li, Sheng Chen, Mingxiu Chen, Jinxiu Zheng and Juxiang Hu

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:6

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  24. 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...

    Authors: Fernando Torres-Pérez, Dusan Boric-Bargetto, Evelyn Rodríguez-Valenzuela, Constanza Escobar and R. Eduardo Palma

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:5

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  25. 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...

    Authors: Eduardo Alanís-Rodríguez, Víctor M. Molina-Guerra, Javier Jiménez-Pérez, Ernesto A. Rubio-Camacho, Arturo Mora-Olivo, Alejandro Collantes-Chávez-Costa and Jonathan J. Marroquín-Castillo

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:4

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  26. 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...

    Authors: Andrés Muñoz-Sáez, Jorge F. Perez-Quezada and Cristián F. Estades

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:3

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  27. 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...

    Authors: Sandra V. Uribe, Romina G. Chiappe and Cristián F. Estades

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:2

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  28. 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...

    Authors: José I. González-Rojas, Hernaldo Padilla-Rangel, Irene Ruvalcaba-Ortega, Miguel A. Cruz-Nieto, Ricardo Canales-del-Castillo and Antonio Guzmán-Velasco

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2017 90:1

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  29. 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...

    Authors: A. Casanova-Katny, G. A. Torres-Mellado and S. M. Eppley

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:13

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  30. 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 ...

    Authors: Pablo I. Becerra

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:12

    Content type: Research

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  31. 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...

    Authors: Daniel Aguilera-Olivares, José F. Rizo, Camila Burgos-Lefimil, Luis Flores-Prado and Hermann M. Niemeyer

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:11

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  32. 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...

    Authors: Steven D. Warren, Lorgio E. Aguilera and L. Scott Baggett

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:10

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  34. 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 ...

    Authors: Viviana Almanza, Oscar Parra, Carlos E. De M. Bicudo, Carolina Baeza, Johana Beltran, Ricardo Figueroa and Roberto Urrutia

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:8

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  35. 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...

    Authors: Jens Boy, Roberto Godoy, Olga Shibistova, Diana Boy, Robert McCulloch, Alberto Andrino de la Fuente, Mauricio Aguirre Morales, Robert Mikutta and Georg Guggenberger

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:6

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  36. 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...

    Authors: Nelso P. Navarro, Pirjo Huovinen and Iván Gómez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:5

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  37. 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...

    Authors: C. Rivas, N. Navarro, P. Huovinen and I. Gómez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:7

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  38. 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...

    Authors: Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo, J. Max Troncoso-Castro, Marely Cuba-Díaz and Mauricio J. Rondanelli-Reyes

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:4

    Content type: Short report

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  39. 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...

    Authors: V. Segovia-Rivera and N. Valdivia

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:3

    Content type: Research

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  40. 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 ...

    Authors: Karina González, Juan Gaitán-Espitia, Alejandro Font, César A. Cárdenas and Marcelo González-Aravena

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:2

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  41. 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...

    Authors: Elivane Salete Capellesso, Rafael Weirich, Giamarco Dariva, Tanise Luisa Sausen and Elisabete Maria Zanin

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2016 89:1

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  43. 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...

    Authors: Gabriela Calderon, Marco Garrido and Edmundo Acevedo

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:18

    Content type: Review

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  44. 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...

    Authors: Yamila Gurovich, Hayley J. Stannard and Julie M. Old

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:17

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  46. Canopy of forest ecosystems has been recognized as a habitat that supports a wide variety of plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and microbes. Within the invertebrate group, arthropods are characterized by the...

    Authors: Leticia Valencia-Cuevas and Efraín Tovar-Sánchez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:15

    Content type: Review

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  47. 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...

    Authors: Maribel Paniagua-Ibáñez, Alfredo López-Caamal, Patricia Mussali-Galante, Enrique Sánchez-Salinas, Ma. Laura Ortiz-Hernández, Rolando Ramírez-Rodríguez and Efraín Tovar-Sánchez

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:14

    Content type: Research

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  48. Plants in a seasonal environment that become close to the artificial lake after dams construction may have enhanced growth or die due to the new conditions. Changes in mortality or growth rates lead to changes...

    Authors: Vagner S Vale, I Schiavini, J A Prado-júnior, Ana P Oliveira and André E Gusson

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:13

    Content type: Research

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  49. Recently it has been proposed that the genetic diversity of foundation species influences the structure and function of the community by creating locally stable conditions for other species and modulating ecos...

    Authors: Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Leticia Valencia-Cuevas, Patricia Mussali-Galante, Rolando Ramírez-Rodríguez and Elgar Castillo-Mendoza

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:12

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  50. Natural M. chilensis populations dominate habitats with a steep environmental gradient, and that are characterized by abrupt changes in salinity and exposure to desiccation. Although these populations are the sou...

    Authors: Carlos Alberto Molinet Flores, Manuel Alejandro Díaz Gomez, Camilo Bernardo Arriagada Muñoz, Leny Eunise Cares Pérez, Sandra Lorena Marín Arribas, Marcela Patricia Astorga Opazo and Edwin Juan Elías Niklitschek Huaquin

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:11

    Content type: Research

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