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AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM

Technical bases for the integrated management of Laguna del Sauce and associated basin

Technical bases for the integrated management of Laguna del Sauce and associated basin (Spanish version only)
Manfred Steffen y Hugo Inda (Ed.)
SARAS Institute. Maldonado, 2010. Volver

"Contributions to the rehabilitation of Laguna del Sauce and its land use planning."

“Contributions to the rehabilitation of Laguna del Sauce and its land use planning.” (Spanish version only)
SARAS Institute. Maldonado, 2018.

What is eutrophication? (Chapter 1: p. 25–31)
Paula Bianchi, German Taveira, Guillermo Goyenola, Magdalena Fuentes, Manfred Steffen, Néstor Mazzeo.

What are the main current and trending land uses in Laguna del Sauce Basin? (Chapter 3: 47-59)
German Taveira, Paula Bianchi, Ismael Díaz y Hugo Inda.

Land use planning in the context […]

Environmental Warming in Shallow Lakes: A Review of Potential Changes in Community Structure as Evidenced from Space-for-Time Substitution Approaches

Mariana Meerhoff, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Carla Kruk, Cecilia Alonso, Iván González-Bergonzoni, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Gissell Lacerot, Matías Arim, Meryem Beklioglu, Sandra Brucet, Guillermo Goyenola, Carlos Iglesias, Néstor Mazzeo, Sarian Kosten, Erik Jeppesen Volver

Biomanipulation as a Restoration Tool to Combat Eutrophication: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard, Torben L. Lauridsen,Thomas A. Davidson, Zhengwen Liu, Nestor Mazzeo,Carolina Trochine, Korhan Özkan, Henning S. Jensen, Dennis Trolle, Fernando Starling, Xavier Lazzaro,Liselotte S. Johansson, Rikke Bjerring, Lone Liboriussen,Søren E. Larsen, Frank Landkildehus, Sara Egemose, Mariana Meerhoff Volver

Drinking Water in Maldonado: Contributions for the management in Laguna del Sauce basinda

Joaquín Beder, Paula Bianchi, Felipe Cedrés, Magdalena Fuentes, BambouPittaluga, Germán Taveira Volver

Contributions to OSE’s Water and Sanitation Master Plan for the Department of Maldonado, Uruguay (OSE-SARAS Agreement) (Spanish version only)

Néstor Mazzeo, Micaela Trimble, Lydia Garrido, Paula De Tezanos, Rafael Terra, Cristina Zurbriggen,Hugo Inda, Carolina Crisci, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Lucía González-Madina, Paula Levrini, Isabel Gadino, Manfred Steffen y Paula Bianchi. Volver

EARLY WARNING SIGNALS

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

Anthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Jordi Bascompte, Eric L. Berlow, James H. Brown, Mikael Fortelius, Wayne M. Getz, JohnHarte, Alan Hastings, Pablo A. Marquet, Neo D. Martinez, Arne Mooers, Peter Roopnarine, Geerat Vermeij, John W. Williams, Rosemary Gillespie, Justin Kitzes, Charles Marshall, Nicholas Matzke, David P. Mindell, Eloy Revilla & Adam B. Smith.
Nature, Vol. 486, 7 de Junio, pp.52-58. Volver

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock, Victor Brovkin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Vasilis Dakos, Hermann Held, Egbert H. van Nes, Max Rietkerk & George Sugihara
Nature, Vol. 461, 3 de Setiembre, pp.53-59. Volver

Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable

Stephen R. Carpenter, Carl Folke,
Marten Scheffer, and Frances Westley Volver

RESILIENCE THINKING

Environmental sustainability in Uruguay: contributions from resilience thinking (Spanish version only)

Néstor Mazzeo, Cristina Zurbriggen, Micaela Trimble, Paula Bianchi, Isabel Gadino and Manfred Steffen Volver

Environmental sustainability in Uruguay: contributions from resilience thinking

(Summary Version in R_ Mayo Sustentable Magazine /Spanish version only)

Néstor Mazzeo, Cristina Zurbriggen, Micaela Trimble, Paula Bianchi, Isabel Gadino y Manfred Steffen Volver

ART-SCIENCE INTERACTIONS

Earth, Water and Sky: An Anthology of Environmental Poetry

Poerty Prizes from the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies. Volver

Teaching originality? Common habits behind creative production in science and arts.

Scheffer, M., M. Baas, and T. K. Bjordam. 2017. Teaching originality? Common habits behind creative production in science and arts. Ecology and Society 22(2):29. Volver

Dual thinking for scientists

Scheffer, M., J. Bascompte, T. K. Bjordam, S. R. Carpenter, L. B. Clarke, C. Folke, P. Marquet, N. Mazzeo, M. Meerhoff, O. Sala, and F. R. Westley. 2015. Dual thinking for scientists. Ecology and Society 20(2): 3. Volver

The forgotten half of scientific thinking

Marten Scheffer Volver

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION

Cost-benefit analysis guide. Application for adaptation measures to climate change in the agricultural sector in Uruguay (Spanish only)

Miguel Carriquiry, Matías Piaggio, Guillermo Sena
Published by FAO and PNUD, Montevideo – 2019 Volver

Decision Making and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
(spanish version only)
UNESCO Volver

Climate change, analysis and decision-making processes
(Spanish version only)
Nestor Mazzeo (CURE – SARAS Institute), Paula Bianchi (Saras Institute) and Manfred Steefe Volver

Climate of changes: new adaptation challenges in Uruguay
(Spanish version only)
FAO, MGAP Volver

Tools for decision-making and risk transfer in the agribusiness sector in the face of the effects of climate change, climate variability and disasters in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay
(Spanish version only)
Teresa Gamarra (Catholic University Our Lady of the Assumption) Volver

Gender and climate change in Latin America
(Spanish version only)
Maria Teresa Arana Zegarra Volver

(Compilation) Research for climate action in Latin America – Contributions from CDKN in the region
(Spanish version only)
Micaela Trimble Volver

Exploring the relationship between political parties and climate change in Latin America.
(Spanish version only)
Daniel Ryan (Postgraduate School of the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires) Volver

GRASS-WOODLAND TRANSITIONS

Special Feature edited by Journal of Ecology. Synthesis of the main aspects analyzed during the III Conference SARAS² 2012

An ecosystem services perspective on brush management: research priorities for competing land-use objectives

Steven R. Archer and Katharine I. Predick Volver

Grass–woodland transitions: determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services

Osvaldo E. Sala and Fernando T. Maestre Volver

Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas

José D. Anadón, Osvaldo E. Sala and Fernando T. Maestre Volver

Shifts in plant functional types have time-dependent and regionally variable impacts on dryland ecosystem water balance

John B. Bradford, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, William K. Lauenroth and Ingrid C. Burke Volver

Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America

Zak Ratajczak, Jesse B. Nippert, John M. Briggs and John M. Blair Volver

Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across Patagonian rangelands

Juan J. Gaitán, Gabriel E. Oliva, Donaldo E. Bran, Fernando T. Maestre, Martín R. Aguiar, Esteban G. Jobbágy, Gustavo G. Buono, Daniela Ferrante, Viviana B. Nakamatsu, Georgina Ciari, Jorge M. Salomone and Virginia Massara Volver

Fire, percolation thresholds and the savanna forest transition: a neutral model approach

Sebastián R. Abades, Aurora Gaxiola and Pablo A. Marquet Volver