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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

09/06/2025 | News

Conceptual system maps to understand and manage ecosystem services and disservices: a powerful tool born in the Andes
Through a combination of expert knowledge, system mapping, and network analysis, the team created a comprehensive conceptual system model for the Lules River watershed in northwestern Argentina. This conceptual model includes five  ecosystem services and disservices  influencing f human well-being and environmental health in northwestern...

06/02/2025 | News

Fruit size is not a good indicator of which bird species consume it
Birds that feed on fruits play a key role in nature, participating in seed dispersal and forest regeneration. Therefore, it is important to know which birds can disperse which fruits, even more so in a present where human activity profoundly transforms terrestrial ecosystems. Traditionally, scientists have believed that the size of birds'...

25/04/2024 | News

Seed dispersal by animals: ecological function and ecosystem service
A tree suggests that a seed once managed to germinate and establish itself in that place. A forest multiplies that idea indefinitely. For many tree species, the arrival of a seed in favourable conditions for germination depends on the intervention of animals that consume the fruits and mobilize the seeds without damaging them. Half of the known...

27/11/2022

SURPASS2: Safeguarding Pollinators and Pollination Services
SOURCE OF FUNDING: Newton Fund SUMMARY: The expansion and intensification of agriculture have been linked to the loss of pollinators and a decline in pollination services. Although multiple factors contribute to this phenomenon, the loss or degradation of natural habitats is considered one of the main drivers. Therefore, effective monitoring of...

28/06/2019

Biodiversity, functioning, and ecosystem services provision in soybean fields of the Semi-Arid Chaco (PICT2017-3572)
  Principal Investigator: N Chacoff Financial Source: FONCYT Abstract The demand for food grows rapidly, but the impacts that agricultural expansion have on natural systems are also growing. This demand is satisfied, in part, with the transformation of natural lands, but also with an increase in production in areas that are already...

19/06/2019 | News

Ecosystem services mediated by plant-animal interactions in a context of change of land use in northwestern Argentina
Principal Investigator: Pedro G. Blendinger. Co-Principal investigator: Natacha Chacoff. Funded by: Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (PIUNT 2018- #G609). 2018-2021. With this project, we plan to generate quantitative information on plant-pollinator systems in natural, urban and agricultural ecosystems of NW Argentina. We will use four study...