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  1. The source of Darwin’s illness has been a contentious issue in the literature for almost 70 years. Different causal factors have been invoked to account for his symptoms, including Chagas disease. The Chagas h...

    Authors: Carezza Botto-Mahan and Rodrigo Medel

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:7

    Content type: Review

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  2. Ecological restoration is a process that helps the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or destroyed. The success of restoration actions depend on the understanding of the processes, mechan...

    Authors: Eduardo Alanís-Rodríguez, Víctor M. Molina-Guerra, Alejandro Collantes-Chávez-Costa, Enrique Buendía-Rodríguez, Arturo Mora-Olivo, Laura Sánchez-Castillo and Alejandro G. Alcalá-Rojas

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:6

    Content type: Research

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  3. For the genus Thylamys, the rivers have been reported as barriers to dispersal, limiting current and historical distribution of its lineages. We hypothesized that the Maipo river has affected the genetic structur...

    Authors: Dusan Boric-Bargetto, Álvaro Zúñiga-Reinoso, Oscar Inostroza-Michel, Enrique Rodríguez-Serrano, Daniel González-Acuña, R. Eduardo Palma and Cristián E. Hernández

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:5

    Content type: Research

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  5. We document the record of Telmatobufo venustus Phillipi (1899) in the Altos de Malalcura sector, Antuco, Biobío Region, Chile. This is the first record metamorphic Gosner 45 stage and the fourth georeferenced rec...

    Authors: Helen Díaz-Páez and Nicza Alveal

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:3

    Content type: Short report

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  6. In this article we would like to touch on the key role played by the microbiota in the maintenance of a sustainable environment in the entire planet. For obvious reasons, this article does not intend to review...

    Authors: Rafael Vicuña and Bernardo González

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:2

    Content type: Commentary

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  7. It is known that aquaculture may produce negative environmental effects on marine ecosystems. Southern Chile is one of the most important salmon and mussel-producing areas in the world. Here we assess the ecol...

    Authors: Eduardo Hernández-Miranda, Romina Estrada, Poliana Strange, Rodrigo Veas, M. Cristina Krautz and Renato A. Quiñones

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2021 94:1

    Content type: Research

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  8. We determine the occurrence of self-citations among 36 Chilean ecologists with the highest h index values recorded in Web of Science. Because the practice of self-citation is perceived as negative by inflating a ...

    Authors: Jaime R. Rau and Fabian M. Jaksic

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:9

    Content type: Commentary

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  9. Bombus terrestris is a European bumblebee extensively commercialized worldwide for crop pollination. In Chile, this species was introduced in 1997 and after confinement escape, it has spread and established in se...

    Authors: Kiara Fernández, Jennifer Alcaíno, Dionisia Sepúlveda and Rodrigo Medel

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:8

    Content type: Short report

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  10. We report new records of the wild felid Leopardus guigna in its northern-most distribution, in the southern Coquimbo and northern Valparaíso regions, in northern-central Chile. To our knowledge, these are the nor...

    Authors: Constanza Napolitano, Cristian Larraguibel-González, Amancay A. Cepeda-Mercado, Pablo Vial and Jim Sanderson

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:7

    Content type: Short report

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  11. Analysis of morphological variation in archipelagos has been essential to understand the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates. In particular, these natural scenarios allow to assess morphological changes exper...

    Authors: Alejandro Valladares-Gómez, Marcela Huenumilla-Linares, Enrique Rodríguez-Serrano, Cristián E. Hernández and R. Eduardo Palma

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:6

    Content type: Research

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  12. Salas y Gómez is a small, volcanic island largely untouched by humans due to its diminutive size and remoteness. Since the waters surrounding Salas y Gómez were established as Motu Motiro Hiva Marine Park in 2...

    Authors: Samantha N. Hershauer, Sebastian Yancovic Pakarati and J. Judson Wynne

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:4

    Content type: Short report

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  13. Chile is the second largest avocado producer in the world. However, there have been few studies on interactions between native bees and avocado pollination in a Chilean environment. The flowering period of avo...

    Authors: Víctor H. Monzón, Patricio Avendaño-Soto, Rodrigo O. Araujo, Rubén Garrido and José N. Mesquita-Neto

    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2020 93:5

    Content type: Research

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  14. 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

    Content type: Research

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  15. 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

    Content type: Short report

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  16. 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

    Content type: Research

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  17. 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

    Content type: Research

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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

    Content type: Research

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  23. 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

    Content type: Research

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  24. 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

    Content type: Research

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  25. 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

    Content type: Research

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  26. 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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  27. 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

    Content type: Research

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  28. 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

    Content type: Research

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  29. 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

    Content type: Research

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  30. “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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  31. 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

    Content type: Research

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  32. 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

    Content type: Research

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  33. 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

    Content type: Research

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  34. 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

    Content type: Research

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  35. 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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  36. 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

    Content type: Research

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  37. 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

    Content type: Research

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  38. 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

    Content type: Research

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  39. 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

    Content type: Research

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  40. 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

    Content type: Short report

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  41. 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

    Content type: Short report

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  42. 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

    Content type: Research

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  43. 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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  44. 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

    Content type: Research

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  45. 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

    Content type: Research

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  47. 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

    Content type: Research

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  48. 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

    Content type: Research

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  49. 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

    Content type: Research

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  50. 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

    Content type: Research

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