Research:
My research is focused on the impacts of land use change on ecosystem functioning. I use tools such as remote sensing and modeling and data from climatic databases and regional land use statistics to assess the changes that land use and land cover change (agriculture and grazing) have produced on the way that ecosystems exchange materials and energy with the atmosphere. The research is focused on the temperate areas of Argentina.

Publications:

Paruelo JM, Golluscio RA, Guerschman JP, Cesa A, Jouve V and Garbulsky MF. Regional scale relationships between ecosystem structure and functioning. The case of the patagonian steppes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Accepted.

Lanctot RB, Blanco DE, Oesterheld M, Balbueno RA, Guerschman JP and Piñeiro G. Assessing habitat availability and use by Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Tryngites subruficollis) wintering in South America. Ornitologia Neotropical. In press.

Kaye JP, Burke IC, Mosier A and Guerschman JP. Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from urban soils to the atmosphere. Ecological Applications. 14(4): 975–981. Abstract

Paruelo JM, Garbulsky MF, Guerschman JP and Jobbágy EG. Two decades of NDVI changes in South America: identifying the imprint of global changes. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(14): 2793-2806. Abstract

Guerschman JP, Paruelo JM. and Burke IC. 2003. Land use impacts on the normalized difference vegetation index in temperate Argentina. Ecological Applications. 13(3):616-628. Abstract - Full Article (pdf)

Guerschman JP, Paruelo JM, Di Bella C, Giallorenzi MC and Pacín F. 2003. Land cover classification in the Argentine Pampas using multitemporal LANDSAT-TM data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(17):3381-3402. Abstract - Full Article (pdf)

Paruelo JM, Garbulsky MF, Guerschman JP and Oesterheld M. 1999. Caracterización regional de los recursos forrajeros de las zonas templadas de Argentina mediante sensores remotos. Revista Argentina de Producción Animal. Vol. 19 (1): 125-131. Full Article (pdf)

Contact information:
IFEVA & Depto. de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente
Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Av. San Martín 4453 C1417DSE - Buenos Aires - Argentina
TE: (54 11) 4524-8000 ext 8113
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My Curriculum Vitae is here in spanish or english.

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Curso de Estadística General