Marcelo A. Aizen

Publicaciones - Publications

En prensa - In press

Garibaldi L.A., Morales C.L., Ashworth L., Chacoff N.P. & Aizen M.A. (2011) Nuestra alimentación depende de animales que polinizan los cultivos. Ciencia Hoy.

Chacoff, N.P., C.L. Morales, L.A. Garibaldi, L. Ashworth & M.A. Aizen (2011) Pollinator dependence of Argentinian agriculture: current status and temporal analysis. Americas Journal of Plant Science and Biotechnology.

Aizen, M.A., M. Lozada & C.L. Morales  (2011) Comparative nectar-foraging behaviors and efficiencies of an alien and a native bumble bee.  Biological Invasions (en prensa).


2011

Garibaldi, L.A, M.A. Aizen, A.M. Klein, S.A. Cunningham & L.H. Harder (2011) Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 14 : 5909–5914. [pdf]
 
Amico, G.C., M.A. Rodriguez-Cabal & M.A. Aizen  (2011)  Geographic variation in fruit colour is associated with contrasting seed disperser assemblages in a south-Andean mistletoe.  Ecography 34: 177–352. [pdf]

Menz, M.H.M, R.D. Phillips, R. Winfree, C. Kremen, M.A. Aizen, S.D. Johnson & K.W. Dixon (2011) Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the ecological restoration of pollination function.  Trends in Plant Science 16:4-12. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A.  (2011) Editor's Choice.  Comentario sobre "Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Valentin, T., Mougal, J., Matatiken, D. & Ghazoul, J. (2011) The tolerance of island plant–pollinator networks to alien plants. Journal of Ecology, 99, 202-213".  Homepage del Journal of Ecology.
http://www.journalofecology.org/view/0/edchoice991.html


2010

Sabatino, M., N. Maceira, N. & M.A. Aizen (2010)  Direct effects of habitat area on interaction diversity in pollination webs.  Ecological Applications 20: 1491-1497. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A & L.D. Harder (2010)  Too busy bees (Op-ed article).  New York Times (25-03-2010). [pdf]

Harder, L.D. & M.A. Aizen (2010) Floral adaptation and diversification under pollen limitation.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 529–543. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & A.E. Rovere (2010) Reproductive interactions mediated by flowering overlap in a temperate hummingbird-plant assemblage. Oikos119: 696-706. [pdf]

Quintero, C., C.L. Morales & M.A. Aizen (2010) Effects of anthropogenic habitat disturbance on local pollinator diversity and species turnover across a precipitation gradient.  Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 257-274. [pdf] [suppl]


2009

Chacoff, N.P., C.P. Souto, M.A. Aizen & A. Premoli (2009

) Is there genetic variation in seedless Argentinean grapefruit? Implications for crop production and conservation. Basic and Applied Genetics 20: 27-35. 

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Aizen, M.A & N. Chacoff (2009) Las interacciones planta-animal como servicio ecosistémico: el caso del mutualismo de polinización. En: (Medel, R, M.A. Aizen  y R. Zamora)  Ecología y evolución de interacciones planta-animalPp. 315-330. Editorial Universitaria, Chile. [pdf]

Medel, R., M.A. Aizen  & R. Zamora, editores (2009)  Ecología y evolución de interacciones planta-animal399 p.  Editorial Universitaria, Chile. 

Aizen, M.A & L.D. Harder (2009) The truth about honeybees.  New Scientist 2731: 26-27. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & L.D. Harder (2009) Geographic variation in the growth of domesticated honey-bee stocks: disease or economics?  Communicative & Integrative Biology (published online). [pdf] [suppl]

Winfree, R., R. Aguilar, D.P. Vázquez, G. LeBuhn  & M.A. Aizen (2009) A meta-analysis of bees’ responses to anthropogenic disturbance.  Ecology 90: 2068–2076. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & L.D. Harder (2009) The global stock of domesticated honey bees is growing slower than agricultural demand for pollination. Current Biology 19: 915-918. [pdf] [suppl]

Aizen, M.A., L.A. Garibaldi, S.A. Cunningham & A.M. Klein (2009)  How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production.  Annals of Botany 103: 1579-1588. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A., L.A. Garibaldi & M. Dondo (2009) Expansión de la soja y diversidad de la agricultura argentina. Ecología Austral 19:45-54. [pdf]

Garibaldi, L.A., M.A. Aizen, S. Cunningham & A.M. Klein (2009) Pollinator shortage and global crop yield: looking at the whole spectrum of pollinator dependency.  Communicative & Integrative Biology 18: 1572–1575. [pdf]

Amico, G.C., M.A. Rodríguez-Cabal, M.A. & M.A. Aizen (2009)  The potential key seed-dispersing role of the arboreal marsupial Dromiciops gliroidesActa Oecologica 35: 8-13. [pdf]


2008

Aizen, M.A., L.A. Garibaldi, S.A. Cunningham & A.M. Klein (2008)  Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency.  Current Biology 18: 1572–1575. [pdf] [suppl] [dispatch by R. Winfree]

Chalcoff, V.R., Ezcurra, C. & M.A. Aizen (2008) Uncoupled geographic variation between leaves and flowers in a south-Andean Proteaceae.  Annals of Botany102: 79–91.  [pdf]

Chalcoff, V.R, M.A. Aizen & L. Galetto (2008)  Sugar preferences of the green-backed firecrown hummingbird (Sephanoides sephaniodes, Trochilidae): a field experiment.  Auk 125: 60–66.  [pdf]

Chacoff, N.P, M.A. Aizen  & V. Aschero (2008)  Proximity to forest edge does not affect crop production despite pollen limitation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 907–913.  [pdf]

Paritsis, J. &  M.A. Aizen (2008) Effects of exotic conifer plantations on the biodiversity of understory plants, epigeal beetles and birds in Nothofagus dombeyi forests.  Forest Ecology and Management 255: 1575–1583.  [pdf]

Aizen, M.A., C.L. Morales & J.M. Morales (2008)  Invasive mutualists erode native pollination webs.  PLoS Biology 6(2): e31.  [pdf] [primer by J.M. Tylianakis]

Aizen, M.A.  & C. Ezcurra (2008) Do leaf margins of the temperate forest flora of southern South America reflect a warmer past?  Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 164-174.  [pdf]

Rodríguez-Cabal, M.A., G.C. Amico, A.J. Novaro & M.A. Aizen (2008) Population characteristics of Dromiciops gliroides (Philippi, 1893), an endemic marsupial of the temperate forest of Patagonia.   Mammalian Biology 73: 74-76.  [pdf]


2007

Rodríguez-Cabal, M., M.A. Aizen & A. Novaro (2007)  Habitat fragmentation disrupts a plant-disperser mutualism in the temperate forest of South America.  Biological Conservation  39: 195-202. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A (2007)  Enfoques en el estudio de la reproducción sexual de las plantas en ambientes alterados: limitaciones y perspectivas.  Ecología Austral 17: 7-19. [pdf]

Chacoff, N.P & M.A. Aizen (2007)  Pollination requirements of pigmented grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macf.) from northwestern Argentina.  Crop Science 47: 1143-1150.  [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & Harder, L.D. (2007) Expanding the limits of the pollen-limitation concept: effects of pollen quantity and quality. Ecology 88: 271-281. [pdf]

Kremen, C., N. M. Williams, M.A. Aizen, B. Gemmill-Herren, G. Lebuhn, R. Minckley, L. Packer, S. G. Potts, T. Roulston, I. Steffan-Dewenter, D.P. Vazquez, R. Winfree, L.  Adams, E. E. Crone, S. S. Greenleaf, T. H. Keitt, A. Klein, J. Regetz y T. Ricketts (2007)  Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land use change.  Ecology Letters 10: 299–314.


2006

Aizen, M.A. & Vázquez, D.P. (2006) Flower performance in human-altered habitats. En: L.D Harder y S.C.H. Barrett (editores). Ecology and Evolution of flowers. Pp. 159-179. Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Aguilar, R., L. Ashworth, Galetto L. & Aizen, M.A. (2006) Plant reproductive susceptibility to habitat fragmentation: review and synthesis through a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 9: 968-980. [pdf]

Chalcoff, V.R., Aizen, M.A. & Galetto, L. (2006) Nectar concentration and composition of 26 species from the temperate forest of South America. Annals of Botany 97: 413-421. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & Vázquez, D.P. (2006) Flowering phenologies of hummingbird plants from the temperate forest of southern South America: is there evidence of competitive displacement? Ecography 29: 357-366.  [pdf]

Chacoff, N.P. & Aizen, M.A. (2006) Edge effects on flower-visiting insects in grapefruit plantations bordering premontane subtropical forest. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 18-27.  [pdf]

Morales, C.L. & Aizen, M.A. (2006) Invasive mutualisms and the structure of plant-pollinator interactions in the temperate forest of north-west Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Ecology 94: 171-180. [pdf]

Premoli, A.C., Aizen, M.A., Kitzberger, T. & Raffaele, E. (2006) Situación ambiental de los Bosques Patagónicos. En: A. Brown, U. Martínez Ortiz, M. Acerbi, y J. Corcuera (editores). La situación ambiental argentina 2005. Pp. 281-291. Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina, Buenos Aires.


2004-2005

Aizen, M.A. (2005) Breeding system of Tristerix corymbosus (Loranthaceae), a winter-flowering mistletoe from the southern Andes. Australian Journal of Botany 53: 357-361. [pdf]

Amico, G.C. & Aizen, M.A. (2005) Dispersión de semillas por aves en un bosque templado de Sudamérica austral: ¿quién dispersa a quien? Ecología Austral 15: 89-100. [pdf]

Vázquez, D.P. & Aizen, M.A. (2005) Community-wide patterns of specialization in plant-pollinator interactions revealed by null models. En: N. M. Waser y J. Ollerton (editores).  Specialization and generalization in plant-pollinator interactions. Pp. 200-219. The University of Chicago Press. [pdf]

Morales, C.L. & Aizen, M.A. (2004). Potential displacement of the native bumblebee Bombus dahlbomii by the invasive Bombus ruderatus in NW Patagonia. En: K. Hartfelder y D .De Jong (editores). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tropical Bees and VI Encontro sobre Abelhas (pp. 70 - 76). International Bee Research Association.

Ashworth, L., Aguilar, R., Galetto, L. &  Aizen, M.A. (2004)  Why do pollination generalist and specialist plant species show similar reproductive susceptibility to habitat fragmentation?  Journal of Ecology 92: 717-719. [pdf]

Harder, L. & Aizen, M.A. (2004)  The functional significance of synchronous protandry in Alstroemeria aureaFunctional Ecology 18: 467-474. [pdf]

Vázquez, D.P. & Aizen, M.A. (2004) Asymmetric specialization: a pervasive feature of plant-pollinator interactions.  Ecology 85: 1251-1257. [pdf]


2002-2003

Aizen, M.A. (2003) Down-facing flowers, hummingbirds and rain. Taxon 52: 675-680. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. (2003) Influences of animal pollination and seed dispersal on winter flowering in a temperate mistletoe. Ecology 84: 2613–2627. [pdf]

Vázquez, D.P. & Aizen, M.A. (2003) Null model analyses of specialization in plant-pollinator interactions.  Ecology 84: 2493-2501. [pdf]

Rovere, A., Aizen, M.A. & Kitzberger, T. (2003) Growth and climatic response of male and female trees of Austrocedrus chilensis, a dioecious conifer from the Temperate Forests of southern South America.  Ecoscience 10: 195-203. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & P. Feinsinger. (2003) Bees not to be?  Responses of insect pollinator faunas and flower pollination to habitat fragmentation.  En: G.A. Bradshaw & P.A. Marquet (editores).  How landscapes change: human disturbance and ecosystem fragmentation in the Americas. Pp. 111-129.  Springer-Verlag, Berlin. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A., Asworth, L. & Galetto, L. (2002) Reproductive success in fragmented habitats: do compatibility systems and pollination specialization matter? (Forum article).  Journal of Vegetation Science 13: 885-892 [pdf]

Torres, C., EynardM.C., Aizen, M.A. & Galetto, L(2002Selective fruit maturation and seedling performance in Acacia caven (Fabaceae).  International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 809-813. [pdf]

Morales, C.L. & Aizen, M.A. (2002) Does invasion of exotic plants promote invasion of exotic flower visitors?  A case study from the temperate forests of the southern Andes.  Biological Invasions 4: 87-100. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A., D.P. Vázquez y  C. Smith-Ramírez. (2002) Historia natural de los mutualismos planta-animal del Bosque Templado de Sudamérica Austral.  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 75: 79-97. [pdf]

Souto, C.P., Aizen, M.A. & A.C. Premoli. 2002. Effects of crossing distance and genetic relatedness on pollen performance in Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae).  American Journal of Botany 89: 427-432. [pdf]


1998-2001

Tadey, M. & Aizen, M.A. (2001) Why do flowers of a hummingbird-pollinated mistletoe face down?  Functional Ecology 15: 782-790. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. (2001) Flower sex ratio, pollinator abundance, and the seasonal pollination dynamics of a protandrous plant.  Ecology 82: 127-144. [pdf]

Amico, G.C. & Aizen, M.A. (2000) Mistletoe seed dispersal by a marsupial.  Nature 408: 929-930. [pdf]

Nuñez, C., Aizen, M.A. & C. Ezcurra (1999)  Species associations and nurse plant effect in patches of high-Andean vegetation.  Journal of Vegetation Science 10: 357-364. [pdf]

Ladio, A.H. & Aizen, M.A. (1999) Early reproductive failure increases nectar reward and pollination success of late-produced flowers in Alstroemeria aurea(Alstroemeriaceae).  Oecologia 120: 235-241. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & C. Ezcurra (1998)  High incidence of plant-animal mutualisms in the woody flora of the temperate forest of southern South America: biogeographical origin and present ecological significance.  Ecología Austral 8: 217-236. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. (1998) Forest fragmentation and plant reproduction: the pollination link.   Proceedings del Taller "Recent Advances in Biotechnology, pp. 22-37.International Foundation for Science-Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.  Septiembre 1997.  Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. International Foundation for Science, Estocolmo, Suecia

Aizen, M.A. &  SearcyK. (1998) Selective fruit filling in relation to pollen load size in Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae).  Plant Sexual Reproduction 11: 166-170.

Aizen, M.A. & Raffaele, E(1998)  Flowering shoot defoliation affects pollen grain size and postpollination pollen performance in Alstroemeria aurea.  Ecology 79: 2133-2142. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & BasilioA. (1998) Sex differential nectar secretion in protandrous Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae): is production altered by pollen removal and receipt?  American Journal of Botany 85:  245-252. [pdf]


1994-1997

Aizen, M.A. (1997) Influence of local floral density and flower-phase sex ratio on pollen receipt and seed output: empirical and experimental results in dichogamous Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae).  Oecologia 111: 404-412. [pdf]

Clayton, S. & Aizen, M.A. (1996) Effects of pollinia removal and insertion on flower longevity in Chloraea alpina (Orchidaceae).  Evolutionary Ecology 10: 653-660. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  RaffaeleE. (1996) Nectar production and pollination in Alstroemeria aurea: responses to level and pattern of flowering shoot defoliation.  Oikos 76: 312-322. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  WoodcockH. (1996)  Effects of acorn size on seedling survival and growth in Quercus rubra L. following simulated spring frost.  Canadian Journal of Botany 74: 308-314. [pdf]

Roig Alsina, A. & Aizen, M.A. (1996)  Bombus ruderatus, una nueva especie de Bombus para la Argentina (Hymenoptera:  Apidae).  Physis 51: 120-121.

Aizen, M.A. &  BasilioA. (1995)  Within and among flower sex-phase distribution in Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae).  Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 1986-1994. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  PattersonW.A. (1995)  Leaf phenology and herbivory along a temperature determined topographical gradient:  a test of the phenological window hypothesis.  Journal of Vegetation Science 6: 543-550. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & RovereA.E. (1995)  Does pollen viability decrease with aging?  A cross-population examination in Austrocedrus chilensis.  International Journal of Plant Sciences 156:  227-231. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & Feinsinger, P(1994)  Habitat fragmentation, native insect pollinators, and feral honeybees in Argentine "Chaco Serrano".  Ecological Applications 4: 378-392. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. & Feinsinger, P. (1994)  Forest fragmentation, pollination, and plant reproduction in a Chaco dry forest, Argentina.  Ecology 75:  330-351. [pdf] 


1989-1993

Aizen, M.A. (1993)  Self pollination shortens flower lifespan in Portulaca umbraticola H.B.K.  International Journal of Plant Sciences 154: 412-415. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  PattersonW.A. (1992)  Do big acorns matter? - A reply to Jensen.  Journal of Biogeography 19: 581-582. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  WoodcockH. (1992)  Latitudinal trends in acorn size in the eastern North American oaks.  Canadian Journal of Botany 70: 1218-1222. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A.  (1991) Predación de semillas de Acacia Aroma por el brúchido Pseudopachymerina grata en función de la posición de las semillas y el número de semillas por vaina.  Ecología Austral 1: 17-24. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A. &  KenigstenA. (1990)  Floral sex ratios in scrub oak (Quercus ilicifolia) vary with microtopography and stem height.  Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 1364-1968. [pdf]

Aizen, M.A.,  SearcyK. & Mulcahy, D. (1990)  Among- and within-flower comparisons of pollen tube growth following self and cross pollinations in Dianthus chinensis L. (Caryophyllaceae).  American Journal of Botany 77: 671-676. [pdf]

Aizen M.A. &  PattersonW.A. (1990) Acorn size and geographical range in the North American oaks.  Journal of Biogeography 17: 327-332. [pdf]

Patterson, W.A. & Aizen, M.A. (1989) Hardwood competition and weevil infestation in white pine: lessons from a long term study.  Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 6: 186-188.

Aizen M.A. (1989) The fit of logspecies-logarea regression lines to nonequilibrium archipelagoes: a simulation approach.  Ecological Modelling 47: 265-273. 

 

Comentarios - Commentaries      

Bascompte, J., M.A. Aizen, C. Fontaine, M.A. Fortuna, P. Jordano, T. M. Lewinsohn, J. Memmott, J.M. Olesen, T. Petanidou, V. Rico-Gray & J.N. Thompson (2010)  Reports from the 2009 ESA AnnualMeeting-  Symposium 6: Mutualistic Networks.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America  91:  367-370.

Aizen, M.A., Kitzberger, T., Premoli, A. & Heinemann, K. (2000) Estación Biológica del Bosque Lluvioso Templado. Boletín de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología 9(1): 4-5.

Aizen, M.A. & Kitzberger, T. (1999) La Selva Valdiviana: el gran cerco verde de los Andes. Patagonia Geográfica 1: 6-21.

Aizen, M.A. (1998) Cuando pa' Chile me voy. Comentario sobre el libro "Ecología de los bosques nativos de Chile"(Juan J. Armesto, Carolina Villagrán y Mary Kalin  Arroyo, eds.). Boletín de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología 7(2): 30-31.

Aizen, M.A. (1997) Coevolución de plantas y animales: las interacciones biológicas como fuente de cambio evolutivo recíproco. Ciencia Hoy 7(40): 47.

Aizen, M.A. & Galetto, L. (1996) Los polinizadores, animales olvidados. OVEI (Revista de la Organización de Viaje de Estudios de Ingeniería y Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) 4: 20-23.

Aizen, M.A. (1996) Fuego, biodiversidad e interacciones biológicas. Revista de la Sociedad Naturalista Andino-Patagónica 3: 9.

Aizen, M.A. & Farji-Brener, A.G. (1995) La enseñanza de la ecología en las universidades. Boletín de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología 4 (1): 6-7. 


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