El presente artículo aborda los cambios en los espacios rurales de América Latina y los posibles escenarios futuros a través de estudios de caso desarrollados en el contexto del proyecto "Designing a methology to evaluate local knowlegde on global change…

Lakes are excellent sensors of environmental change, including climate change. Chironomids (Insecta, Diptera) and ostracods (Crustacea) are among the most useful biological indicators for paleoenvironmental reconstruction found in lake sediments, due to their sensitiveness to environmental variables. However, the use…

Corallus annulatus (Northern Annulated Tree-boa) is a little-studied tropical Boid occurring disjunctively throughout Central America and tropical South America in mostly lowland tropical moist and wet forests (Holdridge, 1967; Stafford & Henderson, 1996; Smith & Acevedo, 1997; Henderson et al.,…

Los lagartos del género Liolaemus se distribuyen desde las altas cordilleras de Perú y Bolivia en el norte hasta el extremo austral de América del Sur. Se analizan los cariotipos descriptos para las 55 especies de Liolaemus con análisis citogenético…

Inventários faunísticos são fundamentais para o conhecimento da biodiversida- de e, conseqüentemente, para o planejamento e tomada de decisões sobre estratégias de conser- vação. Para conhecer a diversidade e composição dos répteis Squamata, assim como a distribuição das espécies por…

En el presente trabajo se estudió la conducta agonística que presentan los porcinos, considerando por separado la agresividad en lechones y en cerdos adultos. Conocer los mecanismos íntimos del comportamiento social del cerdo analizando todas las actitudes que involucran una…

This study attempts to conceptualise the right to forget/be forgotten along with building a theoretical foundation of this individual’s right and validating the social importance of establishing the right, which is characterised as a nearly fundamental human right to protect…

The pearly freshwater mussels ("naiads") are infaunal species, endemic to the Neotropical region, belonging to the families Hyriidae and Etheriidae. The habitat alteration and competition with the invasive species Corbicula fluminea and Limnoperna fortunei, impact on their natural populations. This…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

El Noreste de la provincia de Buenos Aires corresponde a un ambiente llano con pendientes muy bajas, donde tienen gran relevancia los movimientos verticales del agua, resultando de especial interés los procesos de recarga ya que constituyen la principal fuente…