Education

• 2004. PhD Student. Graduate School, College of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires.
• 2003. Agronomic Engineer, College of Agronomy. University of Buenos Aires.
• 1996. Agronomist. EAS. Uribelarrea.

Positions / fellowships

• 2006. Teaching assistant. Department of Statistics. College of Agronomy. University of Buenos Aires.2004.
• 2004. Doctoral Fellowship. CONICET. Successional mechanisms in Pampean grasslands: seed availability, soil resources and competition. Dir: Dr. E Chaneton.
• 2001-2002. University of Buenos Aires Student Fellowship. Functional description of humand disturbed grasslands in the Pampas. Dir. R.J.C. León.
• 2003-2006. Ad-honorem Teaching Assistant. Ecology Department. College of Agronomy. University of Buenos Aires.
• 1999-2003. Student Teaching Assistant. Ecology Department. College of Agronomy. University of Buenos Aires.

Professional interests

• Grassland Ecology.
• Agroecosystem Ecology.
• Bioogical Invasion.
• Ecological Restoration.

Publications (last 5 years)

• Gundel, Pedro; Garibaldi, Lucas; Tognetti, Pedro M.; Aragón, Roxana; Ghersa, Claudio; Omacini, Marina (2008) Neotyphodium infection and vertical transmission in exotic grasses occurring in grassland communities of the Flooding Pampa (Argentina). Microbial Ecology (Online first).
• Armesto,J. J., Bautista, S., Del Val, E., Ferguson, B., García, X., Gaxiola, A., Godinez-Alvarez, H., Gann, G., López-Barrera, F., Manson, R., Núñez-Avila, M., Ortiz-Arrona, C., Tognetti, P.M. & Williams-Linera, G. (2006). Towards an ecological restoration network: Challenges and opportunities to revert land degradation in Latin America. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment (en prensa).
• Omacini, M., Tognetti, P.M., Trebino, H y E.J. (2005). Chaneton La sucesión en campos de cultivo pampeanos: la dominancia de plantas exóticas en un estudio a largo plazo. En: Oesterheld, M., Aguiar, M; Ghersa, C.M y J. Paruelo (eds). La heterogeneidad de la vegetación de los agroecosistemas. Un homenaje a Rolando León. Ed. Facultad de Agronomía UBA.
• Gundel, P.E., G. Mozeris, N. Trillo, C.M. Cosani, A. Gaetano, H. Ghiglione, E. Krumpholz, R. Micheloud, R.J. Perea, A. Schifman y P.M. Tognetti. (2004). Contribución al estudio de la cadena agroalimentaria de la carne de liebre europea en la Argentina. Revista Facultad de agronomía 24 (1): 31-40.