About
56
Publications
16,584
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
1,354
Citations
Introduction
Lia Montti currently works at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet). Lia does research in Ecology and Botany with emphasis in Invasive plant species.
Additional affiliations
March 2015 - present
IIMyC-CONICET
Position
- Researcher
March 2013 - October 2021
March 2005 - March 2010
Universidad de Buenos Aires- Instituto Biologia Subtropical-CONICET
Position
- PhD Student
Publications
Publications (56)
Effective long-term management of invasive non-native species (INNS) in South America is a pressing yet complex task. Critically, the environmental, historical, cultural, and economic idiosyncrasies of the region call for the inclusion of a plurality of views from those sectors of society receiving the negative and positive impacts of INNS. This is...
Human activities that define the Anthropocene can lead to multi-faceted (social, ecological, economic) problems, such as biological invasions. Yet, interdisciplinary collaborations focused on understanding their causes and finding solutions remain relatively scarce. Telecoupling lens helps to conceptualize the biological invasions process (transpor...
Human mobility and connectivity between cities are key features of globalization that foster urban expansion, landscape transformations, and changes in species distributions. Andean ecosystems which function as biodiversity reservoirs, are vulnerable to environmental changes and to the introduction of exotic species. Through this study, we assess t...
Biological invasion is a process of ecosystem degradation caused by the proliferation of exotic species. The success of this process depends on the biological characteristics of the species (invasiveness) and the abiotic characteristics of ecosystems (invasibility). Concern about this process has been growing in recent times but, in most cases, dec...
The complexities of invasive alien species (IAS) management call for a close collaboration among stakeholders to codevelop and comanage actions to deliver effective solutions. To achieve this vision, iterative codesign and co‐implementation of solutions is imperative.
Based on a rapid Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis (SWOT)...
Introducción y objetivos: Acacia melanoxylon (acacia australiana) es una especie exótica invasora que se encuentra en expansión sobre relictos de comunidades nativas de la Reserva Natural Privada Paititi (Sistema de Tandilia, Argentina). El objetivo de este trabajo fue diseñar un plan de manejo adaptativo para contener el avance de esta especie.
M...
Amazon forests are being degraded by myriad anthropogenic disturbances, altering ecosystem and climate function. We analyzed the effects of a range of land‐use and climate‐change disturbances on fine‐scale canopy structure using a large database of profiling canopy lidar collected from disturbed and mature Amazon forest plots. At most of the distur...
Biological invasions produce negative impacts worldwide, causing massive economic costs and ecological impacts. Knowing the relationship between invasive species abundance and the magnitude of their impacts (abundance-impact curves) is critical to designing prevention and management strategies that effectively tackle these impacts. However, differe...
The Tandilia System, located in the Southern Pampa region of Argentina, contains areas with conservation value scattered throughout its agricultural landscape. Unfortunately, efforts for their conservation and sustainable management are scarce and isolated, which may be explained by the lack of articulation and linkage between the different social...
Formulating effective management plans for addressing the impacts of invasive non-native species (INNS) requires the definition of clear priorities and tangible targets, and the recognition of the plurality of societal values assigned to these species. These tasks require a multi-disciplinary approach and the involvement of stakeholders. Here, we d...
The study of the genetic characteristics of invasive plant species in native and invaded ranges is an increasingly important attempt for understanding current patterns of invasive plants distribution. While Argentina holds a significant number of invasive woody plant species, scant research has been conducted to determine their invasion pathways. H...
Hacia finales de 2020 nace la Red Tandilia, un espacio pensado para la interacción y articulación de saberes y experiencias vinculados a la conservación de la naturaleza en el Sistema Serrano de Tandilia (Buenos Aires). Se impulsa con el objetivo de co-crear un entramado para compartir diversos aspectos de las tareas de investigación, extensión, di...
El Sistema Tandilia, ubicado en la provincia de Buenos Aires, contiene áreas potenciales para la conservación de la naturaleza dispersas en el paisaje agrícola. Sin embargo los esfuerzos para su conservación y manejo sostenible son escasos y aislados, lo cual puede responder a la falta de articulación y vinculación entre los diferentes actores soci...
Aim
Biological invasions represent one of the main anthropogenic drivers of global change with a substantial impact on biodiversity. This impact can be particularly acute in biodiversity hotspots. Ligustrum lucidum W.T. Aiton is a tree species native of China that, from as early as the eighteenth century, has been introduced broadly around the glob...
Subtropical forests have been under constant pressure due to drastic changes in land use, fragmentation, and logging. These impacts can alter the canopy cover, structure, species composition, and functional characteristics of plant communities. Here, we assess whether structural and functional properties of the liana community change in forests tha...
Effective long-term management is needed to address the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) that cannot be eradicated. We describe the fundamental characteristics of long-term management policies for IAS, diagnose a major shortcoming, and outline how to produce effective IAS management. Key international and transnational management policies co...
Effective long-term management is needed to address the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) that cannot be eradicated. We describe the fundamental characteristics of long-term management policies for IAS, diagnose a major shortcoming, and outline how to produce effective IAS management. Key international and transnational management policies co...
Invasive Alien Species (IAS) threaten biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services, modify landscapes and impose costs to national economies. Management efforts are underway globally to reduce these impacts, but little attention has been paid to optimising the use of the scarce available resources when IAS are impossible to eradicate, and therefo...
Ligustrum lucidum is a highly invasive East Asian tree that successfully colonizes several subtropical and temperate areas around the world. Its invasion capacity results from a widespread human use mostly in urban and periurban settings, very abundant fruit and seed production, small bird-dispersed fruits, high germination rates, resprouting capac...
Por su continuidad espacial y su relativa homogeneidad ecológica y biofísica, las ecorregiones son un nivel de organización apropiado para discutir y planificar iniciativas de conservación del ambiente a escala regional y nacional. Las interacciones complejas entre las características ecológicas de las ecorregiones, los cambios socioeconómicos loca...
Tabla A2. Puntaje de cada presión (de 0 a 100, con valores más altos reflejando una mayor incidencia de la misma) en las ecorregiones terrestres de Argentina en base a su jerarquización sobre cuatro dimensiones.
Bamboos are a diverse and ecologically important group of plants that have the potential to modulate the structure, composition, and function of forests. With the aim of increasing the visibility and representation of bamboo in forest surveys, and to standardize techniques across ecosystems, we present a protocol for bamboo monitoring in permanent...
Frecuentemente investigamos en un territorio sin conocer los proyectos que en él se desarrollan, sus integrantes, líneas de trabajo o instituciones de pertenencia. Durante la revisión bibliográfica local que requiere un trabajo científico, solemos pasar por alto publicaciones en congresos, tesis inéditas, artículos de divulgación, trabajos en vías...
Our research involves of how Paraguayan migrants who are living in Misiones, Argentina, manage medicinal plants in home gardens, and how this practice can be related to the landscape. We examine the relationship between the richness of home garden medicinal plants and landscape variables (e.g., distance to the forest) by applying PLS analysis, whic...
ContextKnowing which factors determine the spread of plant invaders is a relevant issue in global ecology. Cultural landscapes both influence and are affected by exotic species. Although bioclimatic boundaries, seed sources and landscape configuration all control the invasion process, they have been mostly studied separately and independently from...
Disturbances such as selective logging in a forest may lead to a degradation process, where new species become dominant and replace the original vegetation. This is the case of the Semi-deciduous Atlantic Forest, where bamboos replace trees and palms, affecting the forest structure and dynamics. As bamboos show plant traits that contrast those of t...
Evolutionary processes greatly impact the outcomes of biological invasions. An extensive body of research suggests that invasive populations often undergo phenotypic and ecological divergence from their native sources. Evolution also operates at different and distinct stages during the invasion process. Thus, it is important to incorporate evolutio...
Abstract. Invasive plant species may benefit from a reduction in herbivory in their introduced range. The reduced herbivory may cause a reallocation of resources from defence to fitness. Here, we evaluated leaf herbivory of an invasive tree species (Ligustrum lucidum Aiton) in its native and novel ranges, and determined the potential changes in lea...
Argentinean Yungas (subtropical montane forests) have high biodiversity and play a key role in regional watershed regulation. Ligustrum lucidum(glossy privet), native of China, is one of the dominant exotic tree species in secondary forests of this ecoregion. Due to its high growth rates and green foliage throughout the year -in contrast to native...
Physiological characteristics of saplings can be considered one of the most basic constraints on species distribution. The shade-tolerant arborescent palm Euterpe edulis Mart. is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. At a local scale, saplings of this species growing in native forests are absent in gaps. We tested the hy...
Ligustrum lucidum is the major exotic tree in NW Argentina montane forests (Yungas). To assess the effects of its expanding invasion on avian communities we (1) measured different habitat properties (vertical forest structure and composition, vegetation cover, light availability, air temperature, air relative humidity and soil litter depth), (2) co...
Invasions of exotic tree species can cause profound changes in community composition and structure, and may even cause legacy effect on nutrient cycling via litter production. In this study, we compared leaf litter decomposition of two invasive exotic trees (Ligustrum lucidum and Morus sp.) and two dominant native trees (Cinnamomum porphyria and Cu...
Many woody bamboo species are forest understory plants that become invasive after disturbance. They can grow rapidly forming a dense, nearly monospecific understory that inhibits tree regeneration. The principal aim of this study was to understand what functional traits of bamboos allow them to outcompete tree seedlings and saplings and become succ...
A 4-year fertilization experiment with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) was carried out in natural gaps of a subtropical forest in northeastern Argentina. Saplings of six dominant canopy species differing in shade tolerance were grown in five control and five N + P fertilized gaps. Hydraulic architectural traits such as wood density, the leaf area t...
Hydraulic traits were studied for six Nothofagus species from South America (Argentina and Chile), and for three of these species two populations were studied. The main goal was to determine if properties of the water conductive pathway in stems and leaves are functionally coordinated and to assess if leaves are more vulnerable to cavitation than s...
La radiación solar es el factor más importante que limita el crecimiento de las plantas en los bosques tropicales y subtropicales húmedos. En función de esto, las especies de árboles se clasificaron históricamente en dos grupos funcionales sobre la base de sus requerimientos de germinación, establecimiento y crecimiento. Mientras que las especies m...
In tropical and subtropical moist forests the most important factor limiting plant growth is solar radiation. On this basis, tree species had traditionally been classified into two functional groups based on their requirements for germination, establishment and growth. While shade-tolerant species germinate, grow and establish in places with low so...
Chusquea ramosissima is a native monocarpic bamboo species growing in subtropical forests of northeastern Argentina, which can dominate gaps and open forests in the region, particularly after human disturbance. This bamboo species started to flower in different areas of northeastern Argentina in 2001, with the flowering peak during 2002 and 2003 an...
Chusquea ramosissima is a semelparous woody bamboo growing in the understory of the semideciduous Atlantic Forest that increases in abundance after disturbance and consequently has profound effects on vegetation dynamics. Flowering and death of C. ramosissima may open a window of opportunity leaving space vacant for the recruitment of tree seedling...
Soil oribatid mite in four typical vegetation communities of Misiones forest in the Iguazú area, Argentina
Pablo Antonio Martínez, Natalia Andrea Fredes, Lia Fernanda Montti and Sergio Alejandro Casertano
Abstract – The objective of this work was to assess the soil oribatid mite communities in four sites of the Upper Paraná Bosque Atlántico, in th...
The objective of this work was to assess the soil oribatid mite communities in four sites of the Upper Paraná Bosque Atlántico, in the Iguazú National Park, Argentina and in surrounding areas: bamboo forest, palm forest and two mixed forests. A comparison between each pair of sites, based on the presence-absence of oribatid species, was performed u...
Bamboos are prominent components of many tropical ecosystems, yet little is known about the physiological mechanisms utilized by these gigantic forest grasses. Here, we present data on the water transport properties of Chusquea ramosissima and Merostachys claussenii, monocarpic bamboo grasses native to the subtropical Atlantic forests of Argentina....
Selective logging is the most common method of timber extraction in native tropical and subtropical forests, including the Atlantic Forest of South America. Uncontrolled conventional logging has resulted in impoverished forests that have lost much of their economical value and biodiversity. In poorly logged forests in sub-tropical Argentina, bamboo...
Chusquea ramosissima Lindm. is dominant in the understory of the Misiones province forests (Argentina); it colonizes open natural areas and gaps created by timber extraction. The aim of this study is to analyze both the phytolith assemblage produced by leaves, culms, and roots of C. ramosissima and the one deposited on soil surface. This informatio...
Effects of tacuarembó (Chusquea ramosissima, Poaceae) on seed dispersal process in Misiones Forest: Seed dispersal by mammals results spatially heterogeneous since some areas of mammals' territories that are avoided by them. Therefore, seed arrival is high in areas frequently used by the animals and negligible in the avoided areas. Besides, seeds i...
During the last ten years, an important land use change took place in the Pampas region of Argentina. This change led to a significant soil degradation. This work aims to evaluate the stability, morphology and roughness of soil aggregates in soils under different land uses. The values found for each land use could serve as soil quality indicators i...
Frost resistance and subzero temperature effects on photosynthesis, survival and distribution were studied in Euterpe edulis, a tree palm species of the Atlantic Forest, near the southern limit of the species distribution. E. edulis grows under the forest canopy and is absent from forest stands located near bottom valleys. This palm species has bee...
We assessed the effect of native bamboo and lianas on microclimate, tree regeneration and forest structure in a semi-deciduous Atlantic Forest subjected to selective timber extraction during the last century. We hypothetized that bamboo and liana cutting would increase incoming solar radiation in the understory promoting establishment and survival...