South-Central Chile
Multicriteria spatial analysis applied to identifying ecosystem services in mixed-use river catchment areas in south central Chile
... of Chile underwent a major transformation due to the fell- ing and burning of vast expanses of native forest to clear land for arable and livestock farming (Donoso and Otero 2005; Otero ...in south ...
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Patterns of biological nitrogen fixation during 60 000 years of forest development on volcanic soils from south-central Chile
... of south-central Chile, the canopy of old- growth rainforests is dominated by different evergreen and deciduous species of Nothofagus trees, which constitute mixed communities with the broad-leaved ...
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Exploratory Potential for Gold Placer Deposits in the Coastal Range, BioBío Region, South Central Chile
... of south-central Chile have been exploited commercially during the past decades; nevertheless and until now, there are not any exploration studies of these placers and their base- ...of ...
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Managing for old-growth conditions in second-growth temperate rainforests of South-Central Chile
... Valdivia, Chile was first established by Spanish Conquistadors in 1552, but the area was not extensively settled by Europeans until the ...Europeans, South-Central Chile was inhabited by ...
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Mineralogy of a Radioactive Rare Earth Elements Occurrence in the Paleozoic Batholith, South Central Chile
... of south-central Chile [62], have al- lowed the formation of terraces in the Playa Blanca ...the South Coastal Batholith and their associated ...
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Dendrohydrology and water resources management in south central Chile: lessons from the Río Imperial streamflow reconstruction
... in central and south-central Chile found that ENSO and AAO are not independent modes of variabil- ity but rather they both affect precipitation ...
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Taxonomic Diversity and Taxonomic Dominance: The Example of Forest Plantations in South Central Chile
... However, deciduous and sclerophyllous forests inherit many more taxa than plantations. E. globulus plantations maintain the highest levels of taxonomic richness within all plantation types. In contrast, the P. radiata ...
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Sub-slab mantle anisotropy beneath south-central Chile
... Knowledge of mantle flow in convergent margins is crucial to unravelling both the contemporary geodynamics and the past evolution of subduction zones. By analysing shear-wave splitting in both teleseismic and local ...
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Alternative approaches for estimating missing climate data: application to monthly precipitation records in South-Central Chile
... Methods: A complete series of monthly precipitation records (1995 – 2012) from twenty meteorological stations located in central Chile were used. Two target stations were selected and their neighboring ...
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Diatom-Based Reconstructions of Megathrust Earthquake Deformation and Tsunami Inundation in Central and South-Central Chile
... We infer a tsunami origin for the six sand beds within the Quintero lowland sequence. We base our interpretation on characteristics shared by all six beds including: significant lateral extent, uniform thickness, sharp ...
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Reptiles in Monterey pine plantations of the Coastal Range of Central Chile
... This study confirms the role of pine plantations as habi- tat for an important proportion of reptile species in South Central Chile. Not only these artificial forests are inhabited by several species ...
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The Economy of Prehistoric Northern Chile: Case Study Caleta Vitor
... 78 Dillehay (2000: 155) stated that the Chinchorro were the ‘first true maritime economy’ [in South America]. By 7000 BP they had developed a tool-kit specifically developed to exploit marine resources. Their ...
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Underlying mechanism of precursory activity from analysis of upward earthquake migration
... Fig. 1. Distribution of EQs (M ≥ 5) in the Pacific region (USGS catalogue). Hypocentres of deep EQs (depth d > 500 km) are shown by red circles, EQs for 300 ≤ d ≤ 500 km are shown by magenta circles, EQs for 150 ≤ d ≤ ...
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Solution of GK Question Paper 2017
... Tropical rainforests are such rainforests that occur in the region of tropical rainforest climate where there is no dry season and it remain hot and wet. Tropical evergreen rainforest biome provides optimum ...
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Geographic variation in hospital costs, payments, and length of stay for opioid-related hospital visits in the USA
... respectively. The lowest LOS was found in East North Central and Mountain regions at an average of 3.8 days. The regions with the highest cost, payment, and LOS were Pacific ($6,671), Mountain, ($9,001), and ...
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Factors Affecting Growth of Pinus radiata in Chile.
... Process-based models have not been widely used in Chile due to the lack solar irradiation data. Several efforts have been undertaken to predict global radiation in Chile (Yilmaz et al. 2007; Meza and Varas ...
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Genetic Diversity, Distribution, and Serological Features of Hantavirus Infection in Five Countries in South America
... the central Argentine region from Akodon azarae and Necromys obscurus (ex Bolomys), respectively, nor the Bermejo genotype from Oligoryzomys chacoensis in North Argentina reported (12) was found in human ...
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A new genotype of bovine leukemia virus in South America identified by NGS based whole genome sequencing and molecular evolutionary genetic analysis
... H) and linear (A, B, D, and E) epitopes demonstrated that A, B, E, F, and H were conserved, while the G-epitope at residues 48, 74 and 82, and D-epitope at residues 254 and 267 showed divergence (Fig. 8). The K74R ...
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Imported scrub typhus: first case in South America and review of the literature
... five confirmed cases among 47,915 ill travelers between 1996 and 2008 [20]. Most of these patients were diag- nosed by serological tests of single (mostly convalescent) samples and only few were molecularly confirmed ...
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New Zealand and the Antarctic Treaty, 1945 to 1961 : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University
... Appendix THE ANTARCTIC TREATY The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, the French Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of South Africa, the Union of Soviet Soc[r] ...
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