Education
- BSc. AgronomyFaculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos
Aires1981.
- MSc. Natural Resources, Faculty of Agronomy, Univeristy
of Buenos Aires, 1991.
- PhD. in Ecology, 1995, Colorado State University,
USA.
Positions
- Research scientist, CONICET.
- Adjunct Professor. UBA.
- Coordinator of the professional specialization in
“Grazing Ecosystem Management.” Graduate School
Alberto Soriano.
Professional interests
- Rangeland Ecology. Plant population ecology, conservation
& management.
- Dynamics of spatially structure communities. Landscape
ecology.
Courses taught at Faculty of Agronomy (Univ. of B.A.)
- Plant population Ecology.
- Fundaments & recent advances in Ecology.
- Laws in ecology; an epistemological perspective.
- Rangeland ecology.
- Ecology of arid ecosystems.
Colaborator in:
- Reprocution biology of flowering plants.
Students
- Ing. Agr. Pablo A. Cipriotti. PhD in 2006. School of
Agronomy, UBA.
- Ing. Agr. Jose L. Rotundo. MSc. in 2005. School of
Agronomy, UBA.
- Ing. Agr. Pilar Clavijo. Profesional Especialist in 2006.
School of Agronomy, UBA.
- Lic. B. Pamela Graff. PhD candidate, School of Agronomy,
UBA.
- Ing. Agr. Paula E. Leva. PhD Candidate. School of
Agronomy, UBA.
- Lic. Cynthia Cagnotti. MSc program. School of Agronomy.
UBA.
- Ing. Marcos Easdale. MSc program. School of Agronomy.
UBA.
- Ing. Agr. Pilar Clavijo. Especialista. School of
Agronomy. UBA.
- Ing. Agr. Marcelo Pereira Machin. School of Agronomy. UBA.
Publications (last 5 years)
- Paruelo J.M., S. Putz, G. Weber, M. Bertiller, R.A.
Golluscio, M.R. Aguiar, y T. Wiegand
(2008). Long-term dynamics of a semiarid grass steppe under
stochastic climate and different grazing regimes: A
simulation analysis. Journal of Arid Environments 72:
2211-2231.
- Cipriotti, Pablo, Pedro Flombaum, Osvaldo Sala y
Martín R. Aguiar (2008). Does
drought control emergence and survival of grass seedlings
in arid rangelands? An example with a Patagonian species.
Journal of Arid Environments, 72:162-174.
- Rotundo, José L. y Martín R.
Aguiar (2008). Herbivory resistance traits in
populations of Poa ligularis subjected to
historically different sheep grazing pressure in Patagonia
Plant Ecology, 194:121-133.
- Rolhauser A; Cepeda S; Maseda P; Rotundo JL; Srur AM;
Fernandez R; Ghersa CM; León RJC; Perelman SB;
Batista WB; Aguiar MR. (2007). Efectos de la frecuencia de
corte y la fertilización nitrogenada sobre la
estructura de una población implantada de Festuca
arundinacea Schreb. Ecología Austral 17:89-98.
- Aguiar, M.R., M.E. Román (2007).
Restoring forage grass populations in arid Patagonian
rangeland. En J. Aronson, S. Milton y James Blignaut (eds).
Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and Practice
Restoring Natural Capital. Island Press book series
“Science and Practice of Ecological
Restoration”
- Paruelo, J. M., E. Jobbágy, M. Oesterheld, R.
Golluscio, M. Aguiar. (2007). The
grasslands and steppes of Patagonia and the Río de
la Plata Plains. En: T.Veblen, K. Young, y A. Orne (Ed.)
The physical geography of South America. Oxford University
Press. Oxford, EE.UU.
- Graff, Pamela, Martín R. Aguiar y
Enrique J. Chaneton (2007). Shifts in positive and negative
plant interactions along a grazing intensity gradient.
Ecology 88:188-199.
- Wiegand, T.; Kissling, W.D.; Cipriotti, P.A.;
Aguiar, M.R. (2006). Extending point
pattern analysis for objects of finite size and irregular
shape. Journal of Ecology 94:825-837.
- Cipriotti PA; Aguiar MR. (2006).
Controles demográficos sobre el renoval. La
experiencia patagónica. In: Memorias de 1ª
Jornada de Actualización Técnica en Manejo y
Control del Renoval. INTA, Buenos Aires, pp 57-78.
- Aguiar, M.R., P.A. Cipriotti, T. Wiegand
(2005). Procesos poblacionales denso-dependientes y la
generación de patrones de heterogeneidad dentro de
la comunidad. En M. Oesterheld, M. R. Aguiar, C. M. Ghersa,
J.M. Paruelo (ed.) La heterogeneidad de la
vegetación de los agroecosistemas. Un homenaje a
Rolando León. Editorial: Facultad de
Agronomía, UBA.
- Cipriotti, PA; Aguiar, MR. (2005).
Effects of grazing on patch structure in a semi-arid
two-phase vegetation mosaic. Journal of Vegetation Science
16:57-66.
- Cipriottti, PA; Aguiar, MR. (2005).
Interspecific competition interacts with the spatial
distribution of a palatable grass to reduce its
recruitment. Rangeland Ecology and Management
58:393-399.
- Golluscio, RA; Oesterheld, M; Aguiar,
MR. (2005). Relationship between phenology and
life form: a test with 25 Patagonian species. Ecography
28:273-282.
- Rotundo, JL; Aguiar, MR. (2005). Litter
effects on plant regeneration in arid lands: a complex
balance between seed retention, seed longevity and
soil-seed contact. Journal of Ecology 93:829-838.
- Oesterheld, M; Aguiar, MR; Ghersa, CM;
Paruelo, JM, editores. (2005). La heterogeneidad de la
vegetación de los agroecosistemas. Un homenaje a
Rolando León. Editorial Facultad de
Agronomía, Buenos Aires.
- Aguiar, MR; Cipriotti, PA; Wiegand, T.
Procesos poblacionales denso-dependientes y la
generación de patrones de heterogeneidad dentro de
la comunidad. pp 59-79 en Oesterheld et al. (op.cit.).
- Aguiar, MR. (2005). Biodiversity in
grasslands: current changes and scenarios for the future.
pp 273-293 en Reynolds, S; Frame, J, editors. Grasslands:
Developments, Opportunities, Perspectives. Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO), Rome.
- Lauenroth WK, HE Epstein, JM Paruelo, IC Burke,
MR Aguiar, OE Sala. (2004). Potential
effects of climate change on the temperate zones of North
and South America. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77:
439-453.
- Semmartin, María, Martín R.
Aguiar, Roberto A. Distel, Alicia S. Moretto y
Claudio M. Ghersa. (2004). Litter quality and nutrient
cycling affected by grazing-induced species replacements
along a precipitation gradient. Oikos 107: 149-161.
- Rotundo J.L. y M.R Aguiar (2004).
Vertical seed distribution in soil constrains regeneration
processes of Bromus pictus in a Patagonian steppe.
Journal of Vegetation Science 15:515-522.
- Cipriotti, P.A., A.C.Premoli, y M.R.
Aguiar (2004). ANCESTOR: A program to calculate
genetic pairwise relatedness and individual inbreeding
coefficients applying Ritland´s ideas. Journal of
Basic and Applied Genetics 16:1-4.
- Paruelo, J.M. y M.R. Aguiar (2003).
Impacto humano sobre los ecosistemas. El caso de la
desertificación. Ciencia Hoy 13:48-59.
- Higgins, S., Clark, J.S., Nathan, R., Hovestadt, T.,
Schurr, F., Fragoso, J.M., Aguiar, M.R.,
Ribbens, E., Lavorel, S. (2003). Forecasting plant
migration rates: managing uncertainty for risk assessment.
Journal of Ecology 91:341-347.
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