Advertisement
Research
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...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:12
Published on: 12 May 2015
Research
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...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:11
Published on: 1 May 2015
Research
Seed loss to predators is a common phenomenon across plant communities and an important determinant of plant recruitment. Although seed predators commonly destroy the entire seed, partial seed consumption has ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:10
Published on: 21 April 2015
Research
Introduced species can have a major negative impact on biodiversity; an example is the American mink, which was introduced in the 1930s in Patagonia. While there is a consensus that reversing alien mustelids c...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:9
Published on: 16 April 2015
Research
This study was performed to investigate the phenotypic, karyomorphological, and habitat environment characteristics of Lilium distichum that grows naturally in South Korea. Currently, this species follows limited...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:8
Published on: 31 March 2015
Research
Quercus crassifolia is an oak species with characteristics of foundation species, which is a canopy dominant element of different forest types that supports a wide diversity of associated speci...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:7
Published on: 24 March 2015
Short report
This paper presents a comparative study of moss diversity in three collection sites in the South Shetland Islands (King George, Elephant, and Nelson Islands) and one in the Antarctic Continent (Hope Bay, Antar...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:6
Published on: 19 March 2015
Research
The detection of predator chemical cues is an important antipredatory behaviour as it allows an early assessment of predation risk without encountering the predator and therefore increases survival. For instan...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:5
Published on: 24 February 2015
Review
All members of Triatominae subfamily (Heteroptera: Reduviidae), potential vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of the Chagas disease, feed on blood. Through evolution, these bugs have fixed special morph...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:4
Published on: 19 February 2015
Research
Twenty beavers Castor canadensis (Castoridae) were initially introduced in the Argentinean portion of Tierra del Fuego Island, from where they have occupied most of the Fuegian Archipelago and even reached the co...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:3
Published on: 5 February 2015
Short report
The purpose of this paper is to present the finding of Suaeda foliosa in El Yali National Reserve, Chile. With this finding, the southern limit of the distribution is displaced from the current position at 31° S,...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:2
Published on: 30 January 2015
Research
Caudal autotomy appears to be an adaptation strategy to reduce the risk of being preyed upon. In an encounter with a predator, the prey must reduce the risk of being preyed upon, and one of the strategies that...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2015 88:1
Published on: 7 January 2015
Short report
Biotic processes, such as predation and parasitism events, are crucial for answering questions in ecology and evolution. Here, we report predation and ectoparasitism events of invertebrates upon tadpoles in aq...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:31
Published on: 31 December 2014
Research
Subtle ecological and behavioral mechanisms that enhance reproduction such as nest building by animals may provide useful information of population level processes. Variation in behavioral traits may be observ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:30
Published on: 17 December 2014
Review
The northernmost ‘robles’ of Argentina, located in Lagunas de Epulauquen (northwest Patagonia), are considered a population of Nothofagus obliqua, even though they differ in some respects from individuals of othe...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:24
Published on: 2 December 2014
Research
In arid environments, where light and water supply are patchy in space and time, differences in how seedlings tolerate drought and shade conditions will determine the ability of a species to establish. Underst...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:28
Published on: 26 November 2014
Research
Ugni molinae Turcz. is one of the most studied species of South American Myrtaceae due to its edible fruits and foliar medicinal compounds. However, there is no anatomical study of the leaves or secretory cavitie...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:27
Published on: 18 November 2014
Research
Body size exerts a strong influence on the physiology, morphology, ecology, and evolution of other life history traits in vertebrates. We compared the morphometry and allometry of two lizard species (Anolis nebul...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:21
Published on: 12 November 2014
Short report
Brachygalaxias bullocki (Regan, 1908) is a small-sized freshwater fish species (41 to 46 mm) and endemic to Chile. Its biology has still various knowledge gaps, and its distribution range has been reduced in the ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:20
Published on: 12 November 2014
Research
Inland wetlands are well represented ecosystems in Chile that are subjected to various pressures affecting conservation. Protection means legal and administrative initiatives which promote the protection and/o...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:23
Published on: 8 November 2014
Short report
Host plant specificity refers to the preference of insects for particular plant species that allow them to complete their life cycle. Moth species of the Geometridae family depend closely on the vegetation com...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:22
Published on: 7 November 2014
Research
In Chile, most of the timber industry depends on Monterey pine (Pinus radiata (D. Don.)) plantations, which now cover more than 1.5 million ha. In spite of the intensive management of these plantations, they are ...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:25
Published on: 6 November 2014
Research
Peatlands play a key role in the global carbon cycle; these contain one third of the world's soil organic carbon, equivalent to more than half the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, these ecosys...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:26
Published on: 5 November 2014
Research
Despite their ecological, economic and medical relevance, very little information is available on the distribution of planktonic cnidarians, this being particularly true for some regions of the ocean such as t...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:18
Published on: 14 October 2014
Short report
Leptospirosis is an important zoonosis with worldwide distribution caused by pathogenic bacteria of the genus Leptospira. The North American mink (Neovison vison) has an important role in the environmental contam...
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 2014 87:19
Published on: 14 October 2014
Advertisement
