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  1. I review the natural history of the tuco-tuco Ctenomys magellanicus in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, southernmost geographic regions shared by Argentina and Chile. By natural history I mean both historical reco...

    Authors: Fabian M. Jaksic
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Previous bibliometric studies in scientific researchers from developed countries generally support that sharing efforts during research enhances productivity and impact and suggest these effects may be importa...

    Authors: Luis A. Ebensperger, Antonia Aspillaga-Cid and Antonieta Labra
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:8
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  3. Reproductive behaviour under natural conditions is hard to record, especially in rare and cryptic species, such as the Casuhatien anole (Pristidactylus casuhatiensis). This medium size lizard is endemic to the Si...

    Authors: D. B. Lujan Ogeda, A. Areco, G. C. Leynaud and S. M. Zalba
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:7
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  4. The use of Bayesian inference (BI) is a common methodology for data analysis in Ecology and Evolution. This statistical approach is particularly useful in cases which information is scarce, because allows form...

    Authors: Ramiro O. Bustamante, Andrés Iturriaga, Sandra Flores-Alvarado, Rafael A. García and Estefany Goncalves
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:6
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  5. By using a historical approach we attempt to answer the question of whether the “dogs” of Fuegian and Patagonian peoples are a domesticated dog (Canis lupus familiaris) or a tamed or domesticated Culpeo “fox” ...

    Authors: Fabian M. Jaksic and Sergio A. Castro
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Understanding the mechanisms behind resilience has become more relevant in the last decades, due to the increasing and intensifying disturbances from natural and anthropogenic sources that threaten biodiversit...

    Authors: Cynthia Vásquez, Renato A. Quiñones, Antonio Brante and Eduardo Hernández-Miranda
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Vertical distribution of zooplankton is an important biological factor that can modulate zooplankton transport, dispersal, and survival in the ocean. Seawater temperature and the associated formation of a ther...

    Authors: Jessica Bonicelli, María José Jeneral, Bryan Bularz, Nicolas Weidberg, Katalin A. Plummer, Ricardo Calderón, Ursula Cifuentes, Darly Alarcón and Sergio A. Navarrete
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:3
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  8. Little is known about the California Quail (Callipepla californica) as an invader in Chile and Argentina. Our goal was to review the history of its introduction and to provide updated information on its spread an...

    Authors: Benjamín Andrews, Carlos Zurita and Fabian M. Jaksic
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Ecosystems provide a variety of benefits to human society and humanity’s utilization of ecosystems affects their composition, structure, and functions. Global change drivers demand us to study the interactions...

    Authors: Cristián Frêne, Juan J. Armesto, Roberto F. Nespolo, Aurora Gaxiola, Sergio A. Navarrete, Alejandra Troncoso, Ariel Muñoz and Luis J. Corcuera
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2023 96:1
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  10. Animal social systems can be described through four main components: social structure, social organization, mating system, and care system. Social structure describes the relationships between individuals in a...

    Authors: Kaera Utsumi, Catherine Staley, Herman Núñez, Maria A. Eifler and Douglas A. Eifler
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:9
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  11. Marine aquaculture is a very important economic and food production activity in Patagonian channels. The biophysical mechanisms through which farms interact with surrounding areas is poorly understood. A bette...

    Authors: Eduardo Hernández-Miranda, Ignacio Betancourt, Marcus Sobarzo, Odette Vergara, Claudio Iturra and Renato A. Quiñones
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:8
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  12. The systematics of Liolaemus magellanicus has been relatively well researched, but despite its recognition as the southernmost lizard in the world, scant attention has been paid to the discovery, distribution, bi...

    Authors: Fabian M. Jaksic
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. In this paper, we estimate the causal relationship between protected areas and poverty in Chile from 1982 to 2002. Chile is part of the coalition of countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet by 2030;...

    Authors: Thais Vilela, Alfonso Malky Harb and Carla Mendizábal Vergara
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:5
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  15. Restoration practices usually emphasize on the structural part of the biodiversity; also, most studies have focused on plants and very few have been conducted on arthropods and its function after restoration. ...

    Authors: Manuel Edday Farfán-Beltrán, Mariana Chávez-Pesqueira, Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido and Zenón Cano-Santana
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:4
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  16. Habitat fragmentation and degradation processes affect biodiversity by reducing habitat quantity and quality, with differential effects on the resident species. However, their consequences are not always notic...

    Authors: Victoria P. Fernández, Gloria B. Rodríguez-Gómez, Dimas A. Molina-Marín, Gabriel J. Castaño-Villa and Francisco E. Fontúrbel
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:3
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  17. Agroforestry is an integrated land-use system that plays a great role in the conservation of landscape biodiversity. The study aimed to assess the composition and diversity of avian species along with differen...

    Authors: Hussen Yasin and Wondimagegnehu Tekalign
    Citation: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2022 95:2
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  19. 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 Published on:

  20. 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
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  21. 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
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  23. 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 Published on:

  24. 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 Published on:

  25. 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
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  26. 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 Published on:

  27. 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 Published on:

  28. 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
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  29. 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 Published on:

  30. 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 Published on:

  31. 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
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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
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  37. 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
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  38. 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 Published on:

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

  39. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2019 92:5

  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. “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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  49. 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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  50. 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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