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Propuesta para la consolidación de una Red Chilena de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos de Largo Plazo

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Humans are causing profound and rapid transformations of Earth's ecosystems to the extent that we are threatening the sustainability of the biosphere.The development of long-term socio-ecological research, integrating monitoring and experiments at the ecosystem scale, will be essential to detect, prevent, and mitigate the degradation of ecosystems at regional and global scales.To strengthen and expand the nascent Long-Term Socio-ecological Research (LTSER) Network of Chile, we need to integrate efforts of academic, private, and government institutions.A strong long-term research and monitoring program will require a conceptual framework and a set of relevant, comparative, and trans-disciplinary questions.Here, we identify these relevant questions and propose a conceptual framework for the Chilean LTSER Network.Further, we provide guidelines for its organization and consider the needs for infrastructure and funding to sustain the operation of a national network of ecological observatories.

Source: Bosque (Valdivia)

DOI: 10.4067/s0717-92002014000300022

Authors: Mariela Núñez-Ávila, Cristian Frêne, Juan J Armesto

Institutions: University of Concepción, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Language: Spanish

Topic: Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond

Subfield: Ecology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2003712045