Special feature on Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Chile published

Since their formal inception in the U.S. in 1980, long-term ecological research (LTER) programs have served as a successful organizing framework to create research agendas and funding mechanisms that allow scientists to address meaningful ecological phenomena at the scales they occur. In its 30 years of existence, LTER has expanded its geographic range (currently the International LTER network has more than 40 country members with sites on every continent) and disciplinary foci (principally encompassing the natural and social sciences (leading some to call for a name change to long-term socio-ecological research - LTSER). Nonetheless, the temperate and subantarctic biomes of southern South America have lacked formalized long-term research sites and networks. Yet, at the same time, numerous uncoordinated long-term research efforts exist in both Chile and Argentina.

In 2008, with funding from the Basal Financing Program (CONICYT) and the Millennium Scientific Initiative (MIDEPLAN) the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity launched Chile's first concerted effort to link three existing preliminary sites (Fray Jorge Forest National Park - 33° S, Senda Darwin Biological Station - 42° S, and Omora Ethnobotanical Park - 55° S) to demonstrate the utility of this research approach for its subsequent expansion.

The Special Feature, published in English and Spanish, aims to: 

• provide a synthesis of some of the most emblematic cases of long-term socio-ecological research in Chile;
• demonstrate the value of these efforts for the integration of research, education and social outcomes, such as decision making;
• offer the perspective of a broad array of participants involved in these initiatives, including graduate students and associated programs from Ibero-America and North America.

It is the authors' hope that these compiled works will contribute to the consolidation of the LTSER approach in southern South America both within the academic community and also to better link academia and society.

Details

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
2010, Volume 83, Number 1
SPECIAL FEATURE: LONG-TERM SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

• Guest Editorial Board / Comité Editorial Invitado: Christopher Anderson, Juan Armesto, Ricardo Rozzi & Julio Gutiérrez
• With the collaboration of / Con la colaboración de: Juan Luís Celis & Martín Carmona
• Editor-in-Chief RCHHN / Editor Jefe RCHHN: Patricio Camus

http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/contents/2010-83-1.php

Contents

• 1-11 Introducción. Construyendo una Red Chilena para Estudios Socioecológicos a Largo Plazo: Avances, enfoques y relevancia / Introduction. Building a Chilean Network for Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Advances, approaches and relevance. ANDERSON CB, R ROZZI, JJ ARMESTO & JR GUTIÉRREZ
• 13-16 Prefacio. Red Internacional de Investigación Ecológica a Largo Plazo: Alcances y direcciones futuras en Chile / Preface. International Long-Term Ecological Research Network: Scope and future directions in Chile. PARR T
• 17-25 Formando una nueva generación de investigadores capaces de integrar los aspectos socioecológicos en conservación biológica / Creating a new cadre of academics capable of integrating socio-ecological approach to conservation biology ESTÉVEZ RA, DA SOTOMAYOR, AK POOLE & JC PIZARRO
• 27-68 Filosofía ambiental de campo y conservación biocultural en el Parque Etnobotánico Omora: Aproximaciones metodológicas para ampliar los modos de integrar el componente social ("S") en Sitios de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos a Largo Plazo (SESELP) / Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component ("S") in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites ROZZI R, CB ANDERSON, JC PIZARRO, F MASSARDO, Y MEDINA et al.
• 69-98 Long-term research in Bosque Fray Jorge National Park: Twenty years studying the role of biotic and abiotic factors in a Chilean semiarid scrubland / Investigación de largo plazo en el Parque Nacional Bosque Fray Jorge: Veinte años estudiando el rol de los factores bióticos y abióticos en un matorral chileno semiárido GUTIÉRREZ JR, PL MESERVE, DA KELT, A ENGILIS JR, MA PREVITALI, WB MILSTEAD & FM JAKSIC
• 99-111 Cambios de largo plazo en el paisaje y los ensambles de micromamíferos y rapaces en Chile central / Long-term changes in landscape and in small mammal and raptor assemblages in central Chile PAVEZ EF, GA LOBOS & FM JAKSIC
• 113-142 Estación Biológica Senda Darwin: Investigación ecológica de largo plazo en la interfase ciencia-sociedad / Senda Darwin Biological Station: Long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society CARMONA MR, JC ARAVENA, MA BUSTAMANTE-SÁNCHEZ, JL CELIS-DIEZ, A CHARRIER, et al.
• 143-157 Long-term monitoring of coastal ecosystems at Las Cruces, Chile: Defining baselines to build ecological literacy in a world of change / Monitoreo de largo plazo en el ecosistema marino costero de Las Cruces, Chile: Definiendo líneas base para construir alfabetización ecológica en un mundo que cambia NAVARRETE SA, S GELCICH & JC CASTILLA
• 159-169 Investigación sobre manejo forestal a largo plazo en Patagonia Sur - Argentina: Lecciones del pasado, desafíos del presente / Long-term forest management research in South Patagonia - Argentina: Lessons from the past, challenges from the present MARTÍNEZ-PASTUR GJ, MV LENCINAS, PL PERI, JM CELLINI & A MORETTO
• 171-184 Redes de Investigación Ecológica y Socio-Ecológica a Largo Plazo (LTER y LTSER) en Iberoamérica: Los casos de México y España MAASS M, R DÍAZ-DELGADO, P BALVANERA, A CASTILLO & A MARTÍNEZ-YRÍZAR
• 185-194 Long-term ecological research in the forests of the United States: Key lessons for its application in Chile and around the world / Estudios ecológicos de largo plazo en bosques de Estados Unidos: Lecciones claves para su aplicación en Chile y otras regiones FRANKLIN JF & ME SWANSON

Notes

• All articles appear in the original language used by the author(s) with translation to either English or Spanish provided as "Material Complementario".
• Todos los artículos aparecen en el idioma original del autor(es) con una traducción al inglés o castellano en "Material Complementario".