Estela Raffaele

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how research in disturbance ecology can inform land-use and other policy decisions in the context of probable future increases in wildfire activity driven by climate forcing, and they further hypothesize that current land use trends will increase the extent and/or severity of fire events through bottom-up (i.e. land surface) influences on wildfire potential.

TL;DR: In the Nothofagus forest region of southern Argentina and Chile in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the risk of wildfire ignition and spread has been exacerbated by increases in lightning associated with higher temperatures, increased ignitions associated with exurban development, and conversion of less flammable native vegetation to more flammably plantations of exotic conifers as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the long-term effects of wildfire on the mineralogical, physical, chemical and biological properties of a soil developed from volcanic-ashes under N pumilio forests.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how cattle and European hares, the two most widespread exotic herbivores in Patagonia, affect species composition, life-form composition and community structure during the first 6 years of vegetation recovery following severe burning of fire-resistant subalpine forests and fireprone tall shrublands.