LABORATORIO DE RESTAURACIÓN DE BOSQUES
El Laboratorio -Restauración de Bosques- es un espacio de investigación colaborativo e interdisciplinario que busca comprender las respuestas estructurales y funcionales de componentes del ecosistema a la aplicación de tratamientos de restauración en ambientes con severas restricciones bióticas y abióticas. El enfoque de nuestras líneas de investigación se enmarca en dar soluciones prácticas e innovadoras a las fases críticas de un plan de restauración, con énfasis en el manejo de semillas, manejo de calidad de planta en vivero y manejo del micrositio durante el establecimiento en campo.
The -Forest Restoration Lab- is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research unit that looks to understand the structural and functional responses of forest ecosystem to the application of restoration treatments in stressful environments. The focus of our research lines is to provide practical and innovative solutions to the critical phases in a restoration process, with emphasis on quality of seeds and nursery seedlings, and the microsite conditions during field establishment.
News / NOTICIAS
Graduate course "Metodologías de Restauración de Bosques". An academic experience in chilean Patagonia with a interdisciplinary team...Next version 2024 coming soon!
The objective of the course is strengthen scientific and professional skills to applied suitable methodologies for forest restoration plans, specifically, in the phases of diagnosis, planning, design, implementation, monitoring and post-restorative evaluation.Fourteen forest practitioners (CONAF) participated in a workshop to validate the effectiveness of technical guidelines of restoration monitoring and tree nursery selection to support the National Landscape Restoration Plan
More details: https://capes.cl/capes-y-facultad-de-ciencias-forestales-de-la-u-de-chile-capacitan-en-terreno-a-profesionales-conaf
New publication in "Nature Plants"
This interesting article published in "Nature Plants" was addressed by Dr. Ale Miranda (CR2) and is already released! We assessed climatic and productivity trends across the world’s five Mediterranean forest ecosystems and detected large-scale, abrupt forest browning in Chile. Extreme dry and warm conditions in Chile, unprecedented in the recent history of all Mediterranean-type ecosystems, are projected to arise in the second half of this century.
New publication in "Frontiers in Forest and Global Change"
The success of the propagation of recalcitrant-seeded (RS) species often depends on their developmental status, vigor, and/or tolerance to desiccation and chilling/freezing. These attributes are modulated by the environment where the donor plant grows and we hypothesize that climate change, by affecting these biological attributes, would impact the success of explant propagation and cryopreservation.
Flight tickets to Madrid! Thanks to Programa de Becas Santander I got a visiting professor scholarship to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
During May and early June 2023 I had the opportunnity to working with research group of Dr. Juan Oliet in the proyect FORADMIT and also, progress in writting the book entitled "Restauración de Ecosistemas Forestales" (Bannister, Ovalle, Vargas-Gaete and Claramunt Eds.)...Our new book coming soon!!
New publication in "New Forests"
The study compares the effects of shelter tubes with different light transmissivities on survival and morpho-physiological responses of two coexisting tree species (drought-tolerantQuillaja saponaria and relatively more drought-sensitive Maytenus boaria) of the Chilean matorral during an exceptionally dry and warm growing season.
Fondecyt project will study seed and seedling quality for restore degraded forests
The FONDECYT INICIACIÓN (N°11191147) project started this summer season (2020) with an intense campaign to collect "boldo" (Peumus boldus) seeds in central and southern Chile. The study aims investigate how latitudinal effect of Cryptocarya alba and Peumus boldus populations affects seeds functional traits and the variation of seedling performance under changing climate. The main objective of this project is to assess the suitability of contrasting populations of both species to increase restoration success.
"Bosque Esclerófilo y Cambio Global" the new interdisciplinary initiative among CAPES+IEB+CR2
Impacts of crisis climate on native forest ecosystems, and the consequences on the biodiversity and the society well-being, motivated the creation of this research initiative by Dr. Cristián Delpiano (IEB), Dr. Juan F. Ovalle (CAPES), and Dr. Alejandro Miranda (CR2). We aims to assess the forest resilience affected by the mega-drought, fires and land use changes, through setting a permanent plots network along the sclerophyll forest of central Chile.Contact: juan.ovalle@uchile.cl
Departamento de Silvicultura y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile
Av. Santa Rosa 11315, La Pintana, Santiago.
F: 229785720