Andres Moreira-Muñoz

Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso | PUCV · Institute of Geography

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis has independently evolved many times in arid-adapted plant lineages. Cistanthe longiscapa (Montiaceae), a desert mass-blooming annual, can upregulate CAM facultatively upon stress such as drought. Few studies, however, consider life history stages when measuring CAM activity or its facultative onset...

The article analyzes how environmental pressures affect future images of a place and can produce ecoanxiety. We explore these themes via a qualitative study which included semi-structured interviews, observation, and document reviews. The study centered on the municipality of Putaendo, Chile, a region deeply impacted by environmental changes arisin...

The decolonial turn has focused on the mechanisms ruling coloniality, the unbalanced relations of power, knowledge, and ways of being between communities and dominant groups that occupied mountain territories. The decolonial approach intends to develop a theoretical and methodological framework useful for addressing he still persisting marginalizat...

Parque Nacional La Campana (PNLC) is recognized worldwide for its flora and fauna, rather than for its microbial richness. Our goal was to characterize the structure and composition of microbial communities (bacteria, archaea and fungi) and their relationship with the plant communities typical of PNLC, such as sclerophyllous forest, xerophytic shru...

In the context of the current global climate and biodiversity crisis, urgent action is needed to improve participatory and co-productive governance in territories under sustainability directives, such as biosphere reserves. These territories comprise a global network with the potential to apply and replicate sustainability actions, improve liveliho...

Ichneumonidae, or Chilean Darwin wasps, are an important component of South American hymenopteran diversity, but the taxonomic and distributional knowledge on this insect is still deficient. Taking advantage of recently updated taxonomic knowledge, we assessed biogeographic relationships at the genus level and biodiversity spatial patterns along th...

Asteraceae is the world’s richest plant family and is found on all continents, in environments ranging from the coast to the highest mountains. The family shows all growth forms and, as in other angiosperm families, species richness is concentrated in tropical regions. South America has the highest diversity of Asteraceae in the world, yet taxonomi...

A dimensão espacial da colonialidade é investigada a partir de uma proposta conceitual que distingue os conceitos de “geografia das ausências” e “colonialidade do estar”. Posteriormente, investigam-se os aspectos constitutivos da “geografia das ausências” que se apresentam através de sete monoculturas espaciais que facilitam a negação de território...

Flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) exhibit a wide range of feeding habits including necrophagy, coprophagy, kleptoparasitism, parasitism, and predation. Among them are species of Sarcophaga Meigen belonging to the subgenera Baranovisca Lopes and Mehria Enderlein that are specialized predators of spider eggs. These flies hover around spider webs a...

En esta obra se destaca la importancia de valorar y conservar el patrimonio cultural del barrio de San Francisco, en la comuna de Limache, Región de Valparaíso. A través de un enfoque interdisciplinario, se explora la evolución urbana de esa localidad, la significativa designación de la Avenida Urmeneta como Zona Típica, y se estudia en profundidad...

The Putaendo mountain range is located in the Andes of Valparaíso and there are few studies on its flora and vegetation, which is a limitation for the evaluation of the conservation status of this environment that has a diversity of uses, in some cases in conflict. A species inventory was carried out through 15 field campaigns, between 2016-2022, b...

Geoclimatic events driving South American aridization have generated biota differentiation due to barriers and new environment formation. New environments allow species climatic niche evolution, or the geographical expansion of an existing one. Understanding the role these processes play may clarify the evolution of South American biota. Gomphrena...

City-regions in sensitive environmental spaces such as globally recognized biodiversity hotspots face the challenge of adopting land use planning strategies that facilitate the transition towards sustainability. Though landscape-scale patterns of land use changes have already been documented in central Chile, a critical spatial assessment of the dy...

Por demasiado tiempo, para muchos de nosotros, sobre todo en Occidente, el mundo ha sido demasiado humano. Tenemos la necesidad de aprender de otros entornos basados en relaciones distintas a la división entre naturaleza y cultura, para así forjarimaginarios que nos ayuden en la tarea de estar compenetrados con el mundo” (Harriet Hawkins) https://s...

Generating actionable knowledge to meet current sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration across scales, geographies, cultures and knowledges. Intergovernmental programmes and place‐based knowledge–action networks have much potential to mobilize sustainability transformation. Although many research fields have benefited from re...

Llamé "experiencias efímeras" a una serie de ejercicios de diálogo con/en espacios abiertos o paisajes, y espacios habitados, buscando comprender e imaginar qué tipo de proceso implicaba ser un lugar, pero también intentando unir atar, enlazar, entramar cosas que estaban aparentemente dispersas. En una serie de viajes en mi equipaje iban pequeñas m...

Arqueología indígena a partir de sitios y hallazgos; las casas-fuertes como parte del sistema de dominación hispano criollo; acequias y regadío en la larga duración con sus urgencias en el presente; patrimonio arqueológico y ambiental dimensionado en la larga duración; proyecciones para un futuro escuchando a la ciudadanía y caminatas educativas po...

The circulation of knowledge about environment shapes the relationship between society and the nature over long periods of time and foster biocultural diversity. Louis Feuillée, a French botanist who travelled in Chile at the beginning of the 18th century, described the medicinal knowledge of the species he found in Chile, reporting many indigenous...

The anthropocene and its contemporary environmental crisis are symptomatic of an exhausted phase and space of modern rhetoric regarding a nature/culture dichotomy. Its consequences are especially evident in indigenous territories, where it imposes a hegemonic vision of nature as an object of conquest; it affects ways of being, knowing, and existing...

Movilidades animales, animales moviles, una perspectiva entre la geografía animal , la movilidad y la biogeografía. En el libro nuevos términos clave para los estudios de movilidad en América Latina

The current epoch of the Anthropocene involves many scientific challenges, not just methodologically but epistemologically and ontologically, specifically in mountain spaces, especially prone to anthropogenic effect and impacts. Mountain science needs to address these challenges to find the paths towards a “good Anthropocene,” in relationship to di...

Uno de los productos agrícolas tradicionales más conocidos en el Chile Central al día de hoy son los llamados “súper tomates” de Limache. Esta ciudad media en el hinterland de Valparaíso está situada en un valle árido caracterizado por un clima tipo mediterráneo, que, gracias a la construcción de un sofisticado sistema de gestión de las aguas en el...

A new species, Diplostephium paposanum S.T.Ibáñez & Muñoz-Schick, sp. nov. , is described for Chile, extending the southern distribution of the genus. Its position within the genus was confirmed by morphological and molecular data, discussed here. The new species was found in a coastal environment, new to the genus, and is geographically far remove...

En este artículo se estudia al 'puma' (Puma concolor) para comprender las representaciones de la naturaleza en la sociedad chilena, desde una perspectiva geohistórica y la actual discusión del "giro multiespecies" en las humanidades y las ciencias sociales. Para el estudio de la representación del puma en la historia de la sociedad chilena, se recu...

There is a need to make substantial advances in the taxonomic, systematic, and distribution knowledge of plants, and find better ways of transmission of this information to society to surpass the general pattern described as “plant blindness.” The diversity of the plant family Solanaceae reaches its peak in South America; however, many of its speci...

RESUMEN A partir del estudio de ejemplares recolectados en las lagunas del Teno, en los Andes de Curicó, se confirma la validez de Leucheria apiifolia Phil., con el consecuente paso a la sinonimia de L. graui Katinas, M.C. Tellería & Crisci. Adicionalmente, se amplía el rango de distribución boreal de Marticorenia foliosa (Phil.) Crisci a la cordil...

In this article, the 'puma' (Puma concolor) is studied to understand the representations of nature in Chilean society, from a geohistorical perspective and the current discussion of the "multispecies turn" in the humanities and social sciences. For the study of the representation of the puma in the Chilean society, we resorted to historical sources...

We reflect about the role of creative and innovative design/fabrication technologies in processes of learning to become with the world and understanding our place as humanity within nature. In particular, we present part of the work of Aconcagua Fablab, a mobile design and digital fabrication laboratory. We situate it in relation to the Fablab move...

Very few Solanaceae species are able to grow in saline soils; one of them is Lycium humile. This species is endemic to the Altiplano-Puna region (Central Andes, South America) where there are multiple extreme environmental conditions such as hypersaline soils. Here we present an updated description and distribution of L. humile including its new re...

The Atacama Desert at its margins harbors a unique biodiversity that is still very poorly known, especially in coastal fog oases spanning from Perú towards the Atacama coast. An outstanding species-rich fog oasis is the latitudinal fringe Paposo-Taltal, that is considered an iconic site of the Lomas formation. This contribution is the first to reve...

Mexico is floristically the fourth most species-rich country in the world, and Asteraceae is the most diverse vascular plant family in this country. The species exhibits a wide range of growth forms, but the tree-like habit, appropriately named daisy trees, is heavily underestimated, even though slightly different tree definitions are handled. Very...

Biosphere Reserves face huge challenges worldwide, especially those located in metropolitan areas such as La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve in central Chile. As well as direct threats, such as urban sprawl and wildfires, such reserves face a less evident threat in the form of weak community engagement and awareness of the value, opportunities a...

Landscape-scale conservation at the regional level is an important challenge for Biosphere Reserves (BRs), especially those located in areas suffering from depopulation and rural shrinkage. This is the case of the BRs of the southernmost part of Chile, in the Magallanes region. An analysis of the implications of deterritorialization (the radical re...

The species complex Alstroemeria diluta Ehr. Bayer is evaluated according to a reinterpretation of the color and ornamentation of the tepals. As such, change in the distribution and a new status of infraespecific taxa are proposed.

Virtual heritage has recently received attention as a novel path to better conserve geoheritage values and sites by means of the use of advances in digital imaging technology to synthesize, reproduce, represent, and display information. Traditionally, there have been difficulties in the inventory, quantification, and consolidation of relevant geohe...

Link to the manuscript: https://rdcu.be/b6T5m. The Andes is recognized as one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, promoting in its uplift process a series of recent rapid diversification events in different biotic groups like birds, mammals, insects and vascular plants. The uplift of the Andes during the Cenozoic acted as a barrier for many bi...

The Andean genus Xenophyllum (Compositae, Senecioneae) is distributed along the high-Andes from northeastern Colombia to northern Chile and northwestern Argentina, mainly thriving in the paramo and puna ecoregions. It comprises suffruticose plants forming dense mats, hummocks, or clumps of erect stems. They are characterized by displaying involucra...

Although the original description of Solanum polyphyllum Phil. was made in 1891, this species was not seen until it was re-discovered 128 years later in 2019 in the Atacama Desert. Fruits and seeds were previously unknown and a complete description is provided here. This species was not treated in the most recent monograph of Solanum sect. Regmandr...

We present a taxonomic synopsis of the South American genus Schizanthus Ruiz & Pav. (Solanaceae), within which we recognise seventeen taxa (14 species with three infraspecific taxa). The genus is mainly distributed in Chile between the coast of the Atacama Desert and the southern temperate forests, while two species occur in the Argentinian Provinc...

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Senecio festucoides is described from northern Chile. The new species is morphologically similar to the discoid caespitose Andean species and belongs to the subgroup displaying yellow corollas and yellowish anthers and style branches. It is characterized by a weak, not self-supporting stem, narrowly linear leaves, long pedunculate capitula with (17...

The historical analysis of Chilean education is proposed taking into consideration the chronotope perspective of the body in the classroom as an analytical tool that allows us to understand how the most basic and organic way of being in society is constructed and ordered - and eventually is segregated. Our hypothesis is that inequalities and segreg...

Landscape and geoheritage has emerged as a very relevant concept both from Earth sciences and related sciences linked to the conservation of biodiversity, landscapes and cultural diversity. However, concepts like valuation, inventory, quantification and consolidation of the relevant sites of geoheritage is still an underdeveloped issue, at least in...

We redescribed an uncertain species from the Achibueno and Ancoa valleys, Linares province, Chile. We have changed its status to a subspecies: Alstroemeria garaventae subsp. longaviensis. It differs from the typical subspecies in the minor size of the tepals and of the inflorescense leaves, shows a southern distribution and grows at lower altitude...

A new species of Senecio L. from northern Chile is described on the basis of morphological evidence. It is a caespitose species characterized by displaying vertical hypogeous stems, fleshy spatulate leaves, subentire or distantly and shallowly dentate, discoid capitula with yellowish disc florets, anthers, and style branches, and long-pilose achene...

The Chilean network of Biosphere Reserves aspires to become a model of sustainability. Several crucial steps have been undertaken to create a network that encompasses most ecoregions along Chile’s extensive latitudinal gradient. This chapter presents an account of the growth of the network, including its advances and pitfalls. Improvements seem to...

Se somete a juicio crítico la producción de conocimiento geográficoen América Latina desde la perspectiva de las epistemologías delSur desarrolladas por Boaventura de Sousa Santos, generando undiálogo entre la sociología de las ausencias y la producción deausencias en el pensamiento geográfico. Se indaga en la dimensiónespacial de la colonialidad,...

La concentración de actividades humanas en territorios con urbanización intensa y carentes de planificación territorial, conduce a una alteración acumulativa de los procesos e interacciones en los ecosistemas naturales. Ante esto, se hace necesaria la adecuada planificación del crecimiento urbano en concordancia con el uso potencial y sustentable d...

Cities, in recent years, have seen their functional and metabolic relationships with their agrarian hinterland being either broken off completely or substantially damaged. Within this context, Local Food Systems (LFS) can play a key role in restoring the supply relationships under regenerative assumptions. This paper analyses LFS within the Concepc...

Origen del nombre de los géneros de plantas vasculares nativas de Chile y su representatividad en Chile y el mundo Name origin of the native genera of vascular plants from Chile and its presence in Chile and the world RESUMEN La presente contribución constituye un aporte al conocimiento de la fl ora vascular de Chile, reuniendo en un solo texto la...

Much has been written about the taxonomic entity of Werneria denticulata albeit there is still a lack of consensus. On the basis of taxonomic evidence and the clarification of the provenance of the type material, we synonymize it under W. cochlearis. The names W. brachypappa and W. pygmaea var. rhodopappa are lectotypified.

Fumaria muralis (Papaveraceae) and Lathyrus latifolius (Leguminosae) are recorded for the first time in Chile as alien species. Detailed pictures of both species are provided, together with keys to the species of Fumaria and Lathyrus in Chile and a map with the location of the new records.

The "blooming desert", or the explosive development and flowering of ephemeral herbaceous and some woody desert species during years with abnormally high accumulated rainfall, is a spectacular biological phenomenon of the hyper-arid Atacama Desert (northern Chile) attracting botanists, ecologists, geo-scientists, and the general public from all ove...

Xenophyllum esquilachense is a poorly known Andean species that was hitherto considered endemic to southern Peru. It is recorded for the first time from Bolivia and northern Chile, and the name Senecio pfisteri is synonymized with it. New insights on its global occurrence, ecology, and taxonomy are provided, as well as pictures of living plants and...

The presence of Anredera diffusa, from the Basellaceae family, is reported for the first time for the Chilean flora. This species was found in the locality of Mancaruma, north of Socoroma town, in the Arica y Parinacota Region. This is the first record of a native species of Basellaceae in Chile.

l artículo profundiza en las transformaciones socioecológicas que el agronegocio genera en las dinámicas territoriales haciendo uso del concepto de metabolismo social. El estudio se sustenta en: a) el método de estimación de agua virtual para calcular los volúmenes de agua utilizados en la actividad frutícola y sus impactos en la disponibilidad de...

Biodiversity has gained huge importance as a fundamental concept for environmental conservation, yet the physical support of biodiversity (e. g., soils, landforms and geological units, recognized as geodiversity) remains little observed within the scientific community. At the same time, advances in effective biodiversity conservation in critical ho...

El artículo profundiza en las transformaciones socioecológicas que el agronegocio genera en las dinámicas territoriales haciendo uso del concepto de metabolismo social. El estudio se sustenta en: a) el método de estimación de agua virtual para calcular los volúmenes de agua utilizados en la actividad frutícola y sus impactos en la disponibilidad de...

In January 2017, hundreds of fires in Mediterranean Chile burnt more than 5000 km2, an area nearly 14 times the 40-year mean. We contextualize these fires in terms of estimates of global fire intensity using MODIS satellite record, and provide an overview of the climatic factors and recent changes in land use that led to the active fire season and...

Ehrharta longiflora Sm. (Poaceae) is recorded for the first time in South America. A few naturalized populations were located in disturbed areas of Valparaíso (Central Chile). A brief taxonomic discussion, images, and a location map of the new record of this African grass are provided here.

Proustia is a small southern Andean genus of shrubs, vines and small trees, which are characteristic elements of Chilean and Argentine Andean forests, thickets and desert scrubs. Since Proustia possesses an unusual and characteristic morphology within the Nassauvieae, its circumscription as well as its phylogenetic placement is decisive in understa...

Biosphere Reserves (BRs) have proliferated around the world in response to the huge challenges imposed by human impacts in the Anthropocene. One way to face these challenges has been the consolidation of regional networks for sharing lessons learned in recent decades. Current challenges include adaptation to global changes and adoption of SDG UNESC...

He aquí una invitación a conocer la biodiversidad de Quebrada Verde y los Acantilados Federico Santa María, precisamente junto a Don Federico Santa María y acompañados por un connotado grupo de naturalistas porteños. ¿deberíamos aceptar esta invitación y salir a pasear entre litres, corontillos, papayos chilenos y peumos? ¿deberíamos ir a caminar p...

Due to ongoing studies on the austral species of Xenophyllum and Werneria, we noticed that some taxonomic and nomenclatural adjustments are required. Herein, we propose a new combination, Xenophyllum juniperinum.

The Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) are a cosmopolitan tribe with around 185 genera and 2000 species. The New World is one of the centers of diversity of the tribe with 24 genera and over 100 species, most of which form a clade called the Lucilia-group with 21 genera. However, the generic classification of the Lucilia-group has been controversial with no...

Chaetanthera peruviana, a species considered hitherto endemic to Peru, was collected in northern Chile (region of Arica-Parinacota) for the first time. Detailed pictures of the two species occurring in that area, C. peruviana and C. perpusilla, are provided, as well as a key to distinguish both species and a map with the location of the new record.

Se revisa los géneros de las Scrophulariaceae s.l. de Chile a la luz de los recientes estudios moleculares

The iconic conifer Araucaria araucana (Arau- caria), called Pehuén by native people, is an en- demic species of the Andes of northern Patago- nia in Chile and Argentina. Its range encompasses only three degrees of latitude (37 ◦ 20 � – 40 ◦ 20 � S) with a small outlying presence in the coastal moun- tains of Chile (Veblen et al. 1995). The species...

Sobre la base de la revisión de los ejemplares de herbario disponibles y el trabajo de terreno, se reportannuevos antecedentes acerca de la taxonomía y distribución de la especie endémica Adesmia viscosaGillies ex Hook. et Arn. La especie se distribuye entre las Regiones de O'Higgins y del Maule, provinciasde Colchagua a Curicó. Se descarta su pres...