Dr. Francisco A. Squeo
Programa: Conservación y bienestar humano y del resto de la naturalezaDoctor en Biología de la Universidad de Chile. Actualmente es profesor titular de la Universidad de La Serena y director del programa de doctorado en Biología y Ecología Aplicada (programa conjunto entre las Universidades Católica del Norte y de La Serena).
Área de investigación: conservación de la biodiversidad y la ecofisiología de plantas de zonas áridas. Entre sus publicaciones destaca el “Libro Rojo de la Flora Nativa de la Región de Atacama y de los Sitios Prioritarios para su Conservación” (2008).
Artículos Científicos Recientes
- Biodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and its Relationship with the Socio-Economic and Health Context: A Look from the Digital Media
- Mass Balance and Climate History of a High-Altitude Glacier, Desert Andes of Chile
- Management Policies for Invasive Alien Species: Addressing the Impacts Rather than the Species
- Different responses of leaf and root traits to changes in soil nutrient availability do not converge into a community-level plant economics spectrum
- Socio-environmental conflicts: An underestimated threat to biodiversity conservation in Chile
- Isolation and cross-amplification of the first set of polymorphic microsatellite markers of two high-Andean cushion plants
- A hyper arid environment shapes an inverse pattern of the fast-slow plant economics spectrum for above-, but not belowground resource acquisition strategies
- Are pulp consumers effective seed dispersers? Tests with a large-seeded tropical relict tree
- A framework for the classification Chilean terrestrial ecosystems as a tool for achieving global conservation targets
- A hyper arid environment shapes an inverse pattern of the fast-slow plant economics spectrum for above-, but not belowground resource acquisition strategies.