Composición florística y funcional del pastizal natural del centro de la Argentina: Efecto del pastoreo bovino y el fuego

Ruth Rauber; M. Alicia Cendoya; Daniel Arroyo; Stella Bogino

doi:10.25260/EA.23.33.1.0.2054

Authors

Ruth Rauber Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), EEA San Luis. CONICET, CCT San Luis. Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Nacional de Villa Mercedes, San Luis
M. Alicia Cendoya Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), EEA San Luis
Daniel Arroyo Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), EEA San Luis
Stella Bogino Departamento de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de San Luis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25260/EA.23.33.1.0.2054

Keywords:

plant community, disturbance, livestock farming

Abstract

The state and conservation of the natural resources involved in production systems is of global concern. In Argentina, the expansion of the agricultural frontier from the Humid Pampa to the west has intensified livestock activity in semi-arid areas, decreasing the probability of finding sites that are not severely anthropized for productive purposes. The objectives of this work were to characterize the floristic and functional composition of the herbaceous stratum of caldén forests in a site excluded from domestic grazing in the last 50 years and to compare it with two other situations: one, with a winter fire event and subsequent exclusion of ca

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