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Verónica Chillo moved to a new post-doc at the University of Río Negro

Vero moved to start a new post-doc at the University of Río Negro, in the southern city of El Bolsón, Chubut. She’ll surely enjoy cooler temperatures there than in Mendoza. Good luck Vero!

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Meet our youngest lab member!

We welcome Enzo, our youngest lab member, born on December 26! Congratulations mom Vero (and dad Mariano)!

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A novel approach to assess biodiversity response to grazing in drylands

Vero published a paper proposing a novel methodological approach to compare community response to grazing gradients (double reciprocal analysis) in drylands. This analysis allowed for comparison of multi-taxa response under different seasons and management strategies and can be used as

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Ecosystem responses to livestock grazing in drylands

Vero published a paper in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment on the ecosystem responses to livestock grazing in drylands, showing that overall community resilience decreases under increasing grazing pressure, regardless of management strategies. The study also showed that a short-period rotational

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