La Ecología en la República Argentina

Authors

  • Jorge E. Rabinovich Presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología. CONICET, Arenales 3844, 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Lucila D. Boffi Lissin Protesorera de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología. Centro de Ecofisiología Vegetal (CEVEG), Serrano 665, 1414 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

Based on 614 abstracts presented at four national meetings of the Argentinean Ecological Society (ASAE) that covered a 20-year period, and a societary survey carried out in 1992, the state of the ecological sciences in Argentina was evaluated. The abstracts were classified according to (a) specialties within basic and applied ecology, (b) the methodological approach used, and (c) the high priority subjects for the Sustainable Biological Initiative identified by the American Ecological Society (SBI). Populations and communities are the dominant branches of basic ecology in Argentina, but ecophysiology is the one that shows the highest growth rate. In applied ecology, agroecology is the branch with both the highest dominance and the highest rate of growth. From the methodological standpoint there has been c: certain temporal “progress” in Argentinean ecology that seems to reflect a stronger progress in ecophysiology and agroecology. The ASAE’s members opinion strongly overestimates the interpretative and explicative approaches of research, particularly when considering their own working place, and underestimates the descriptive approaches. Populations, communities and agroecology are the only branches that showed the highest association with SBI subjects. ASAE’s members consider that all SBI subjects are important for the ecological sciences but of scarce development in Argentina; however, the level of discrimination of these opinions was extremely low.

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Published

1992-12-01

How to Cite

Rabinovich, J. E., & Boffi Lissin, L. D. (1992). La Ecología en la República Argentina. Ecología Austral, 2(2), 109–122. Retrieved from https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1731

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (1992)

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