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Scientific Articles (Selection 2018-2026)

  1. Andrade-Díaz, M. S., Baldi, G., Fassnacht, F. E., Burton, J., Bravo, S. J., Coria, R. D., Ledesma, R., Cowper-Coles, P., Fernández, P. D., Marás, G. A., Urdampilleta, C. M., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2026). Drivers of woody encroachment in Dry Chaco grasslands: grazing, fire, aridity and the value of local knowledge. Ecosystems and People, 22(1), 2644315. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2026.2644315
  2. Montti, L., Gasparri, N. I., Trumper, A., Amicone, C., Anticoli, A., Burns, S. L., Casertano, S., Eleuterio, A., Gennerich, M.-J., Giessen, L., González, M. V., Santos Silva, M., Vázquez, F., Velazco, S. J. E., Yanosky, A., Zurita, G. A., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2026). Disentangling conservation asymmetries through socio-economic transboundary factors across the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America. People and Nature, 8, 1328–1348. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70291
  3. Himmelsbach, C., Nanni, A. S., Ypa, M. A., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2025). Spatial characterization of human-puma interactions in social-ecological land systems of Argentina. Global Ecology and Conservation, 64, e03953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03953
  4. Anticoli, A., von Below, J., Eleuterio, A. A., Orué Pozzo, A., Trumper, A., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2025). Spatial land conflict typologies in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Journal of Rural Studies, 120, 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103847
  5. Del Giorgio, O., Fontanarrosa, G., Lomáscolo, S., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2025). Systemic sexism in academia: an early-career viewpoint. BioScience, 75(8), 612–614. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf076
  6. Núñez Montellano, M. G., Sandoval-Salinas, M. L., Zelaya, P. V., Lomáscolo, S., Fontanarrosa, G., Rodríguez, D., Chillo, V., Aschero, V., Schroeder, N. M., Brailovsky, V., Álvarez, M. A., Plaza Behr, M. C., Lorenzo Pisarello, M. J., Fanjul, M. E., Piquer Rodríguez, M., Choque, A., & Martínez-Gálvez, M. F. (2025). Crónica de una desigualdad: el caso de la ecología en la Argentina. Ecología Austral, 35(2-bis), 818–837. https://doi.org/10.25260/EA.25.35.2.1.2505
  7. Lomáscolo, S. B., Novillo, A., Pero, E. J. I., Sandoval-Salinas, M. L., Núñez Montellano, M. G., Fontanarrosa, G., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2025). Avanzar sobre suelo resbaladizo: desafíos que enfrentan las ecólogas, relacionados con el trabajo de campo, viajes y el entorno de trabajo. Ecología Austral, 35(2-bis), 869–878. https://doi.org/10.25260/EA.25.35.2.1.2496
  8. Fontanarrosa, G., Zarbá, L., Aschero, V., Dos Santos, D. A., Nuñez Montellano, M. G., Plaza Behr, M. C., Schroeder, N., Lomáscolo, S. B., Fanjul, M. E., Monmany Garzia, A. C., Alvarez, M., Novillo, A., Lorenzo Pisarello, M. J., D'Almeida, R. E., Valoy, M., Ramírez-Mejía, A. F., Rodríguez, D., Reynaga, C., Sandoval Salinas, M. L., … Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2024). Over twenty years of publications in Ecology: over-contribution of women reveals a new dimension of gender bias. PLOS ONE, 19(9), e0307813. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307813
  9. Levers, C., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Gollnow, F., Baumann, M., Camino, M., Gasparri, N. I., Gavier-Pizarro, G. I., Le Polain De Waroux, Y., Müller, D., Nori, J., Pötzschner, F., Romero-Muñoz, A., & Kuemmerle, T. (2024). What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot. Environmental Research Letters, 19(6), 064003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad44b6
  10. Lomáscolo, S. B., Sandoval-Salinas, M. L., Novillo, A., Fontanarrosa, G., Núñez Montellano, M. G., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Alvarez, M., Aschero, V., Chillo, V., Fanjul, M. E., Martínez-Gálvez, F., Pero, E. J. I., Rodríguez, D., Schroeder, N., & Zarbá, L. (2024). Academic career in ecology: effect of gender, caregiving labor, and the working environment. Forest Ecology and Management, 560, 121801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121801
  11. Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Friis, C., Andriatsitohaina, R. N. N., Boillat, S., Roig-Boixeda, P., Cortinovis, C., Geneletti, D., Ibarrola-Rivas, M., Kelley, L. C., Llopis, J. C., Mack, E. A., Nanni, A. S., Zaehringer, J. G., & Henebry, G. M. (2023). Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-)connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics. Landscape Ecology, 38, 1147–1161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01604-2
  12. Andrade-Díaz, M. S., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., & Baldi, G. (2023). Conservation opportunities for threatened paleochannel grasslands in the South American Dry Chaco. Journal for Nature Conservation, 71, 126306.
  13. Zarbá, L., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Boillat, S., Levers, C., Gasparri, I., Anderson, L. O., Araoz, E., Arima, E., Batistella, M., Calderón-Loor, M., Echeverria, C., Gonzalez-Roglich, M., Jobbágy, E., Mathez-Stiefel, S.-L., Ramirez-Reyes, C., Pacheco, A., Vallejos, M., Young, K., & Grau, R. (2022). Mapping and characterization of socio-ecological land systems of South America. Ecology and Society, 27(2), 27.
  14. Grau, R., Gasparri, I., Aráoz, E., Aide, T. M., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2022). Landscape divergence associated with international borders and economic asymmetries. Austral Ecology, 32.
  15. Pötzschner, F., Baumann, M., Gasparri, N. I., Conti, G., Loto, D., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., & Kuemmerle, T. (2022). Ecoregion-wide, multi-sensor biomass mapping highlights a major underestimation of dry forests carbon stocks. Remote Sensing of Environment, 269, 112849.
  16. Andrade-Díaz, M. S., Giraudo, A. R., Marás, G. A., Didier, K., Sarquis, J. A., Díaz-Gómez, J. M., & Prieto-Torres, D. A. (2021). Austral Yungas under future climate and land-use changes scenarios: the importance of protected areas for long-term amphibian conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30(12), 3335–3357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02250-3
  17. Levers, C., Romero-Muñoz, A., Baumann, M., de Marzo, T., Fernández, P. D., Gasparri, N. I., Gavier-Pizarro, G., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Semper-Pascual, A., & Kuemmerle, T. (2021). Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people. PNAS, 118(44), e2100436118.
  18. Law, E., Macchi, L., Baumann, M., Decarre, J., Gavier-Pizarro, G., Levers, C., Mastrangelo, M. E., Murray, F., Müller, D., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Torres, R., Wilson, K. A., & Kuemmerle, T. (2021). Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a South American deforestation hotspot. Biological Conservation, 262.
  19. Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Gasparri, N. I., Zarbá, L., Aráoz, E., & Grau, H. R. (2021). Land systems' asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America. Sustainability Science, 16, 1519–1538.
  20. López-Felices, B., Aznar-Sanchez, J. A., Velasco-Muñoz, J. F., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2020). Contribution of irrigation ponds to the sustainability of agriculture: a review of worldwide research. Sustainability, 12(13).
  21. Macchi, L., Decarre, J., Goijman, A. P., Mastrangelo, M., Blendinger, P. G., Gavier-Pizzaro, G. I., Murray, F., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Semper-Pascual, A., & Kuemmerle, T. (2020). Trade-offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(10).
  22. Nanni, S., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., et al. (2020). Threats to conservation associated to land-use in the terrestrial ecoregions of Argentina. Ecología Austral, 30, 304–320.
  23. Nuñez-Regueiro, M., Branch, L. C., Derlindati, E., Gasparri, I., Marinaro, S., Nanni, S., Núñez Godoy, C., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Soto, J. R., & Tálamo, A. (2020). Open Standards for Conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 6–15.
  24. Andrade-Díaz, M. S., Sarquis, J. A., Loiselle, B. A., Giraudo, A. R., & Díaz-Gómez, J. M. (2019). Expansion of the agricultural frontier in the largest South American Dry Forest: identifying priority conservation areas for snakes before everything is lost. PLOS ONE, 14(9), e0221901. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221901
  25. Aznar-Sánchez, J. A., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Velasco-Muñoz, J. F., & Manzano-Agugliaro, F. (2019). Worldwide research trends on sustainable land use in agriculture. Land Use Policy, 87.
  26. Torrella, S. A., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Levers, C., Ginzburg, R., Gavier-Pizarro, G., & Kuemmerle, T. (2018). Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestation. Ecology and Society, 23(4), 37.
  27. Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Baumann, M., Butsic, V., Gasparri, N. I., Gavier Pizarro, G., Volante, J. N., Müller, D., & Kuemmerle, T. (2018). The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina. Land Use Policy, 79, 57–67.
  28. Nolte, C., Gobbi, B., Le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Butsic, V., & Lambin, E. F. (2018). Challenges in attributing avoided deforestation to policies and actors: lessons from provincial forest zoning in the Argentine Dry Chaco. Ecological Economics, 150, 346–352.
  29. Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Butsic, V., Gärtner, P., Macchi, L., Baumann, M., Gasparri, N. I., Gavier Pizarro, G., Volante, J. N., & Kuemmerle, T. (2018). Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions. Applied Geography, 91, 111–122.

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