Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa Ecoregion: Changes Caused by Agriculture and Urbanisation

Faggi, Ana; Krellenberg, Kerstin; Castro, Roberto Alejandro Hidalgo; Arriaga, Mirta O.; Endlicher, Wilfried

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73412-5_25

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“…Ehrenfeld et al (2001) demonstrated that exotic invasion could cause changes in the soil and discussed the effects of the ornamental woody shrub Berberis thunbergii that invaded forests extensively throughout the east coast of USA. Faggi et al (2006) reported on the consequences of woodland invasions on the displacement of native grasslands in periurban areas of Buenos Aires. 2.82a***** 1.98b***** 1.36c*** 2.25d*** Table 4 Spatial comparison of diversity indexes in current grassy and forested dunes in the northern and southern sector Significant = *** at .05, ****at .02, *****at .01 Samways and Taylor (2004) found that invasive alien Acacia trees destroyed the habitats of South African dragonflies that were particularly sensitive to conditions of light and shade by shading out the understory vegetation.…”

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Temporal and spatial changes in plant dune diversity in urban resorts

Faggi

Dadon

2011

J Coast Conserv

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We investigated the temporal and spatial changes in the floristic composition and abundance in sand dunes along a coastal strip in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Firstly, we analysed changes over a span of 70 years, comparing 41 of our own inventories carried out in 14 beach resorts in 2005-2006 with 18 inventories made in the first half of the XXth century (1930)(1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938)(1939)(1940) in the same study area. We grouped sampled plots into four categories for comparison, taking into account the time period (1930-1940 or 2005-2006) and location at each end of the surveyed coastal strip in the northern or southern 'tourist' sectors. Secondly, we analysed the effect of afforestation with exotic trees on extant sand dune vegetation for the period 2005-2006. A total of 74 plant inventories were carried out in afforested and natural dunes at the same resorts. In both comparisons we contrasted plant richness, percentage plant cover, similarity and diversity. A cluster analysis was used to classify categories taking into account plant abundance and composition. Significant differences in total diversity were observed between sampling years, suggesting an increase in diversity at the present time due to urbanization and recreation related activities. Nevertheless, no single exotic plant species was clearly dominant across the sampled sites, suggesting that these coastal areas are, up to now, resistant to alien invasion. Diversity indexes discriminated by plant groups indicating different habitat conditions and exotics were shown to be more sensitive to existing changes than to total richness and cover.

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Temporal and spatial changes in plant dune diversity in urban resorts

Faggi

Dadon

2011

J Coast Conserv

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“…The study was carried out in the rolling pampas of central Argentina. With over fifty million hectares of agricultural land, it is one of the biggest and most productive plains in the world (Navarrete et al,, 2007;Faggi et al, 2008). Three agroecosystem types with different intensities of soil use were selected as treatments.…”

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Peer Review #1 of "Differential contribution of soil biota groups to plant litter decomposition as mediated by soil use (v0.1)"

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2015

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“…South America is not exempt to the biodiversity loss associated to the urbanization process (Pauchard, Aguayo, Peña, & Urrutia, 2006). In the megalopolis of Buenos Aires (Argentina), which is the second largest urban agglomeration of Latin America (UNDP, 2009), the association between urbanization and animal communities were previously studied for rodents and birds (Cavia, Cueto, & Suarez, 2009;Faggi, Krellenberg, Castro, Arriaga, & Endlicher, 2008;Garaffa, Filloy, & Bellocq, 2009). …”

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