JOSÉ MARÍA PARUELO

paruelo@ifeva.edu.ar
www.agro.uba.ar/users/paruelo/

Education

• Ingeniero Agrónomo, 1984, Fac. of Agronomy - Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Magister Scientiae en Recursos Naturales, 1991, Fac. of Agronomy - Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Doctor of Philosophy, 1995, Dept. Rangeland Ecosystem Sciences, Colorado State University. USA.

Positions

• Profesor Adjunto. Dedicación: Exclusiva. Cátedra: Ecología. Departamento: Ecología. Facultad: Agronomía. Universidad: de Buenos Aires. 1997-presente.
• Investigador adjunto sin director de la Carrera del Investigador Científico y Tecnológico del CONICET. 1997-presente.
• Miembro de la Junta Departamental del Dpto. de Ecología. Facultad: Agronomía. Universidad: de Buenos Aires. 1996-presente.

Professional interests

• Ecología de pastizales.
• Análisis regional de ecosistemas.
• Sensores remotos.
• Manejo de recursos naturales.

Courses taught at Faculty of Agronomy (Univ. of B.A.)

• Análisis regional mediante el uso de sensores remotos.
• Fundamentos y recientes avances en Ecología.

Students

• Cantidad total de tesis doctorales o de maestrías dirigidas: 8.
• Cantidad de tesis doctorales o de maestrías que dirige actualmente: 5.

Publications (last 5 years)

• Baldi G., Nosetto M.D., Aragón R., Aversa F, Paruelo J.M. and Jobbágy E.G. (2008). Long-term satellite NDVI data sets: Evaluating their ability to detect Ecosystem Functional Changes in South America. Sensor. 8, 5397-5425; DOI: 10.3390/s8095397.
• Paruelo J.M., S. Putz , G. Weber, M. Bertiller, R.A. Golluscio, M.R. Aguiar, T. Wiegand. (2008). Long-term dynamics of a semiarid grass steppe under stochastic climate and different grazing regimes: A simulation analysis. Journal of Arid Environment (en prensa)
• Texeira M., Paruelo José M. y E, Jobbagy. (2008). How do forage availability and climate control sheep reproductive performance?. An analysis based on artificial neural networks and remotely sensed data. Ecological Modelling 217: 197-206. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.06.027
• Alcaraz, D., J. Cabello, J. Paruelo, M.Delibes. (2008). The use of descriptors of ecosystem functioning for monitoring a National Park Network: a remote sensing approach. Environmental Management DOI 10.1007/s00267-008-9154-y
• Irisarri, G., Verón, S., Oesterheld, M. and Paruelo J.M. (2008). Grass species differentiation through canopy hyperspectral reflectance. International Journal of Remote Sensing (en prensa)
• Leoni, E., Altesor, A. and Paruelo, J.M. (2008). Explaining patterns of primary production from individual level traits. Journal of Vegetation Science (en prensa).
• Piñeiro, G., S. Perelman, J. P. Guerschman and José M. Paruelo. (2008). How to evaluate models: Observed vs. Predicted or Predicted vs. Observed? Ecological Modelling 216: 316-322.
• Alcaraz, D., J. Cabello, J. Paruelo, M.Delibes. (2008). Trends in the surface vegetation dynamics of the National Parks of Spain as observed by satellite sensors. Applied Vegetation Science 11: 431-440. doi: 10.3170/2008-7-18522
• Baldi, G. and J. M. Paruelo (2008). Land-Use and Land Cover Dynamics in South American Temperate Grasslands. Ecology and Society 13 (2): 6. online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art6/
• Blanco L.J., Aguilera M.O., Paruelo J.M. and Biurrun, F.N. (2008). Grazing effect on NDVI across an aridity gradient in Argentina. Journal of Arid Environments 72:764-776. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.10.003
• Oyarzabal, M.; Paruelo, J. M.; del Pino, F.; Oesterheld, M and Lauenroth, W.K. (2008). Trait differences between grass species along a climatic gradient in South and North America. Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 183-192. doi: 10.3170/2007-8-18349, published online 20 December 2007
• Paruelo J. M., Jobbágy, E.G, Oesterheld M., Golluscio R.A. and Aguiar M.R.. (2007). The grasslands and steppes of Patagonia and the Rio de la Plata plains. In T. Veblen, K. Young and A. Orme (eds.). Chapter 14. The Physical Geography of South America. The Oxford Regional Environments Series, Oxford University Press. Pp 232-248.
• Paruelo JM, JP Guerschman, G Piñeiro, EG Jobbágy, SR Verón, G Baldi y S Baeza. (2006). Cambios en el uso de la tierra en Argentina y Uruguay: marcos conceptuales para su análisis. Agrociencias X:47-61.
• Jobbágy, EG, M Nosetto, JM Paruelo y G. Piñeiro. (2006). Las forestaciones rioplatenses y el agua. Ciencia Hoy. 16:12-21
• Lezama, F, AI Altesor, RJC León y JM Paruelo. (2006). Heterogeneidad de la vegetación en pastizales naturales de la región basáltica de Uruguay. Ecología Austral 16:167-182.
• Bradford JB, WK Lauenroth, IC Burke and JM Paruelo. (2006). The Influence of Climate, Soils, Weather, and Land Use on Primary Production and Biomass Seasonality in the US Great Plains. Ecosystems 9: 934-950
• Piñeiro, G, Oesterheld M, Batista WB, Paruelo JM. (2006). Opposite changes of whole-soil vs pools C:N ratios: a case of Simpson's paradox with implications on nitrogen cycling. Global Change Biology 12:804-809
• Verón, S.R., Paruelo, J.M. and Oesterheld, M. Assessing desertification. Journal of Arid Environment 66:751-763

  Piñeiro, G., J.M. Paruelo y M. Oesterheld. (2006). Potential long-term impacts of domestic herbivores on carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles in South American grasslands. Global Change Biology 12:1267-1284

• Altesor, A. I., G. Piñeiro, F. Lezama, R. D. Jackson, M. Sarasola y J. M. Paruelo. (2006). Ecosystem changes associated with grazing removal in sub-humid grasslands of South America. Journal of Vegetation Science 17:323-332.
• Baldi G., Guerschman J.P.and Paruelo J.M. (2006). Landscape fragmentation in the Río de la Plata Grasslands of Argentina. Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment 116: 197-208.
• Nosetto, M.D., Jobbágy, E.G. and J.M. Paruelo. (2006). Carbon sequestration in semi-arid rangelands: Comparison of Pinus ponderosa plantations and grazing exclusion in NW Patagonia. Journal of Arid Environment 67: 142-156.
• Piñeiro, G.; M. Oesterheld and JM Paruelo. (2006). Seasonal variation in aboveground production and radiation use efficiency of temperate rangelands estimated through remote sensing. Ecosystems 9:357-373
• Baeza, S., Paruelo, J.M. y Altesor, A. (2006). Caracterización funcional de la vegetación del Uruguay mediante el uso de sensores remotos. Interciencia. 31:382-387.
• Burkart, S.B., Garbulsky, M.F., Ghersa, C.M., Guerschman, J.P., León, R.J.C., Oestreheld, M., Paruelo, J.M. y Perelman, S.B. (ex aequo). (2005). Las comunidades potenciales del pastizal pampeano bonaerense. En “La heterogeneidad de la vegetación de los agroecosistemas”. Oesterheld, M., Aguiar, M.R., Ghersa, C, y Paruelo J.M. (eds), Editorial Facultad de Agronomía.(Buenos Aires). Pp 379-395.
• Paruelo, J.M. (2005). ¿Cuanto se han desertificado las estepas patagónicas? Evidencias a partir de la memoria del sistema. En “La heterogeneidad de la vegetación de los agroecosistemas”. Oesterheld, M., Aguiar, M.R., Ghersa, C, y Paruelo J.M. (eds), Editorial Facultad de Agronomía.(Buenos Aires). Pp 303-318
• Di Bella, C.M., Jobbagy, E.G.; Paruelo, J.M. and Pinnock, S.. (2006). Environmental and land use controls of fire density in South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 192-199
• Adler P, Garbulsky MF, Paruelo JM and WK Lauenroth. (2006). Conditions for convergence: abiotic and functional similarity in sagebrush steppe, USA and Patagonian steppe, Argentina. Journal of Arid Environment 65: 62-82
• Alcaraz D., Paruelo, JM and Cabello J. 2006 Current distribution of Ecosystem Functional Types in the Iberian Peninsula. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15:200-210.
• Hall, SA and JM Paruelo. 2006 Environmental Controls on Lambing Rate in Patagonia (Argentina): A Regional Approach. Journal of Arid Environments.64.713-735
• Verón, S.R., Oesterheld, M. and Paruelo, J.M. 2005. Production as a function of resource availability: slopes and efficiencies are different. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 351-354.
• Epstein, H.E., J.M. Paruelo, G. Piñeiro, I.C. Burke, W.K. Lauenroth and J. E. Barrett. (2005). Interactions of water and nitrogen on primary productivity across spatial and temporal scales in grassland and shrubland ecosystems. In: Porporato A. and P. D’Odorico (eds.) Dryland ecohydrology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Guerschman, J.P. and J.M. Paruelo. (2005). Agricultural impacts on ecosystem functioning in temperate areas of North and South America. Global and Planetary Change 47:170-180.
• Paruelo JM, JP Guerschman y SR Verón. (2005). Cambios en el patrón espacial de uso de la tierra en Argentina. Ciencia Hoy
• Nosetto, M.D, , Jobbágy E.G.and J. M. Paruelo. 2005 Land use change and water losses: the case of grassland afforestation across a soil textural gradient in central Argentina. Global Change Biology 11:1-17
• Paruelo J M, Piñeiro G, Oyonarte C, Alcaraz D, Cabello J and Escribano P. 2005 Temporal and spatial patterns of ecosystem functioning in protected arid areas of Southeastern Spain. Applied Vegetation Science 8: 93-102.
• Texeira, M. and JM Paruelo. (2005). Demography, population dynamics and sustainability of the Patagonian sheep flocks. Agricultural Systems 87: 123-146
• Golluscio, RA, Pérez JA, Paruelo JM and Ghersa CM. (2005). Grazing increases Spatial Heterogeneity at Different Grain Sizes In The Patagonian Steppe. Ecoscience 12:103-109
• Lauenroth W.K., Epstein H.E., Paruelo J.M., Burke I.C., Aguiar M.R. and Sala O.E. (2004). Potential effects of climate change on the temperate zones of North and South America. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77: 439-453.
• Garbulsky, M.G. and Paruelo, J.M. (2004). Remote sensing of protected areas. An approach to derive baseline vegetation functioning. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 7.11-720
• Di Bella, C.M., Paruelo, J.M., Becerra, J.E., Bacour, C. and Baret F. (2004). Experimental and simulated evidences of the effect of senescent biomass on the estimation of fPAR from NDVI measurements on grass canopies. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25: 5415–5427
• Paruelo, JM, JP Guerschman, G Baldi y CM. Di Bella. (2004). La estimación de la superficie agrícola. Antecedentes y una propuesta metodológica. Interciencia 29:421-427.
• Paruelo, JM, Golluscio RA, Guerschman JP, Cesa A, Jouve VV, and Garbulsky MF. 2004 Regional scale relationships between ecosystem structure and functioning. The case of the Patagonian steppes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13 (5): 385-395.
• Wiegand, T., Snyman H.A., Kellner K. and Paruelo J.M. (2004). Do grasslands have a memory: modelling phytomass production of a semiarid South African grassland. Ecosystems 7:243-258.
• Verón, S.R., Paruelo, J.M. and Slafer, G.A. (2004). Wheat yield and yield interannual variability in the Argentine Pampas during the 20th century. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 103:177-190.
• Paruelo, J.M., Garbulsky, M.F., Guerschman, J.P. and Jobbágy E.G. (2004). Two decades of NDVI in South America: identifying the imprint of global changes. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25: 2793 - 2806
• Guerschman J.P, Paruelo, J.M., Sala O.E. and Burke I.C. (2003). Land use in temperate Argentina: environmental controls and impact on ecosystem functioning. Ecological Applications 13:616-628.
• Guerschman, J.P., Paruelo, J.M., Di Bella, C.M., Giallorenzi, M.C., Pacín, F. (2003). Land cover classification in the Argentine Pampas using multitemporal LANDSAT-TM data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(17):3381-3402.
• Paruelo J.M., Aguiar, M.R. (2003). El impacto humano sobre los ecosistemas: el caso de la desertificación en Patagonia. Ciencia Hoy 13: 48-59.

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Current research areas at IFEVA

• Regional heterogeneity and global changes analysis