Search Results - "Luciana Ghermandi"

Overgrazing causes a reduction in the vegetation cover and seed bank of Patagonian grasslands by Gonzalez, Sofía Laura, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Aim Soil and vegetation degradation are among the most serious consequences of overgrazed grasslands. Changes in vegetation may affect soil seed bank size and…”
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Dwarf shrub facilitates seedling recruitment and plant diversity in semiarid grasslands by Gonzalez, Sofía L, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…The facilitation mechanism maintains ecosystem richness by increasing seedling recruitment. Overgrazed grasslands of northwestern Patagonia are invaded by…”
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How to define the wildland-urban interface? Methods and limitations: towards a unified protocol by Gonzalez, Sofía, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…In recent decades, the risk of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires has increased due to urban growth, particularly in regions with a Mediterranean climate…”
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Living in a world of fire: the population dynamics of Mulinum spinosum in Northwestern Patagonia grasslands by de Torres Curth, Mónica, Ghermandi, Luciana, Zimmerman, Viviana

“…Questions How do fire frequency and fire size affect the long-term population dynamics of Mulinum spinosum ? Which demographic parameters contribute most to…”
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Fire hazard assessment at different scales in the wildland-urban interface of semiarid areas of northern Patagonia by Gonzalez, Sofía, Aller, Soledad Arias, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have increased in the last decades, putting lives and homes at risk, and fire hazard assessment is a useful tool to…”
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A nonlinear mixed‐effects modeling approach for ecological data: Using temporal dynamics of vegetation moisture as an example by Oddi, Facundo J., Miguez, Fernando E., Ghermandi, Luciana, Bianchi, Lucas O., Garibaldi, Lucas A.

“…Increasingly, often ecologist collects data with nonlinear trends, heterogeneous variances, temporal correlation, and hierarchical structure. Nonlinear…”
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Leaf-cutting ant nests near roads increase fitness of exotic plant species in natural protected areas by Farji-Brener, Alejandro G., Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Onopordum acanthium…”
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Editorial: Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface: applied research for fire prevention and hazard reduction by Ghermandi, Luciana, Gonzalez, Sofía, Alcasena, Fermín, Bento-Gonçalves, António, Molina Martínez, Juan Ramón

“…Regarding the WUI area mapping and fire risk assessment, Tikotzki et al. introduced a novel method, considering building locations, flammable vegetation, and…”
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Early post-fire succession in northwestern Patagonia grasslands by Ghermandi, Luciana, Guthmann, Nadia, Bran, Donaldo

“… Large‐scale disturbances, notably fire and grazing, structure grass and shrubland dynamics in semi‐arid environments. We studied early post‐fire succession…”
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Fire temperature effects on perennial grasses from northwestern Patagonian grasslands by Gonzalez, Sofía L., Ghermandi, Luciana, Peláez, Daniel V.

“…Post-fire recovery of perennial plants depends on their capacity to regrow from surviving meristems. Plants are adapted to a particular fire regime, which can…”
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El grado de invasión de Rumex acetosella L. (Polygonaceae) y su relación con los atributos de la vegetación de dos comunidades de pastizal en el NO de la Patagonia by Jorgelina Franzese, Luciana Ghermandi

“…Rumex acetosella es una hierba exótica perenne que invade los claros (i.e., área entre los pastos perennes dominantes) de los pastizales del NO de la…”
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Múltiples índices espectrales para predecir la variabilidad de atributos estructurales y funcionales en zonas áridas by Buzzi, Mariana A., Rueter, Bárbara L., Ghermandi, Luciana

“…En la región patagónica Argentina, las principales fuerzas directrices de la degradación son las actividades extractivas (petrolera y minera) y la ganadería…”
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Observaciones tempranas de la deposición de ceniza por la erupción volcánica del Cordón Caulle y sus consecuencias sobre la vegetación de la estepa del NO de la Patagonia by Luciana Ghermandi, Sofía Gonzalez

“…El complejo volcánico Cordón Caulle, ubicado en la Cordillera de los Andes (Chile), hizo erupción en junio de 2011 y desde entonces ha estado emitiendo -con…”
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Early competition between the exotic herb Rumex acetosella and two native tussock grasses with different palatability and water stress tolerance by Franzese, Jorgelina, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Semiarid grasslands in NW Patagonia (Argentina) are dominated by Festuca pallescens and Pappostipa speciosa, two native tussock grasses that differ in water…”
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Effect of fire on recruitment of two dominant perennial grasses with different palatability from semi-arid grasslands of NW Patagonia (Argentina) by Franzese, Jorgelina, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Fire is a non-selective disturbance that impacts equally plant species that could be selected differentially by livestock. Post-fire recruitment dynamics is an…”
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Mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface from Houses Location and Terrain Slope in Patagonia, Argentina by Corina Sanucci, Sofía Gonzalez, Luciana Ghermandi

“…Urbanization of forested areas increases the surface of wildland–urban interface (WUI), where fire is the primary hazard for humans and ecosystems. We…”
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How to be a successful shrub in northwestern Patagonia grasslands: Population dynamics of Senecio bracteolatus in a fire prone ecosystem by Curth, Mónica de Torres, Gonzalez, Sofía, Franzese, Jorgelina, Zimmerman, Viviana, Sáez, Agustín, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…•Fire and precipitation affect the population dynamics of Senecio bracteolatus.•A stochastic matrix model was parameterized with experimental and field…”
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Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe by Gonzalez, Sofía, Salazar, César Vallejos, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…Questions Fire intensity influences the soil seed bank in fire‐prone environments. The aim of this investigation was to study the effects of fire intensity on…”
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Morfología del arbusto nativo Mulinum spinosum en sectores quemados de pastizales del NO de la Patagonia by María A. Damascos, Luciana Ghermandi

“…Se comparó la morfología aérea de plantas de Mulinum spinosum que rebrotaron en un área incendiada cuatro años antes y de otras (controles) presentes en un…”
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Seed longevity and fire: post‐germination responses of Rumex acetosella L. in northwest Patagonian grasslands (Argentina) by Franzese, Jorgelina, Ghermandi, Luciana

“…The cosmopolitan herb Rumex acetosella forms persistent soil seed banks and increases in cover after fire. We investigated how the interaction between seed age…”
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